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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from French blanc, feminine blanche, from Old High German blanch "shining, bright, white," German blank; akin to Modern English blink, see also Old English blanc white. See blink, and confer blanch.

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blank (comparative blanker or more blank, superlative blankest or most blank) (all rarely used - by definition, blank is absolute and technically cannot be partial)

  1. Without color; lacking characteristics which give variety.
  2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

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Singular
blank

Plural
blanks

blank (plural blanks)

  1. A bullet that doesn't harm; a cartridge inserted into a gun that fires no projectile.
  2. A void space on a paper.
  3. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
  4. (archaic) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.
  5. (engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
  6. (dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
  7. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to blank

Third person singular
blanks

Simple past
blanked

Past participle
blanked

Present participle
blanking

to blank (third-person singular simple present blanks, present participle blanking, simple past and past participle blanked)

  1. (transitive) To make void; to erase.
    I blanked out my previous entry.
  2. (slang) To Ignore

She blanked me for no reason

  1. To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
    The team was blanked.

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[edit] Danish

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blank

  1. bright, shining, glossy
  2. empty
  3. blank
  4. broke (be without money)

[edit] Dutch

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blank, blanke (comparative blanker, blankere; superlative blankst, blankste)

  1. (race) White, Caucasian.

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blank

  1. pure, sheer
    Blanke Wut packte ihn. — Sheer anger seized him.

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Inflections of
blank
Absolute Comparative Superlative
Attributive Predicative
Indefinite
singular
Common blank blankare blankast
Neuter blankt
Definite
singular
Masc. blanke blankaste
All blanka blankaste
Plural blanka blankaste

blank

  1. reflective, shiny
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