blank

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 2 Danish 2.1 Adjective 3 Dutch 3.1 Adjective 4 German 4.1 Adjective 5 Swedish 5.1 Adjective

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[edit] Etymology

Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *blank "gleaming, white, blinding" from Proto-Germanic *blangkaz (“‘white, bright, blinding’”) from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“‘to shine’”). Akin to Old High German blanch "shining, bright, white" (German blank), Old English blanc "white, grey", blanca "white steed", English blink, blind. See also blink, blind, and confer blanch.

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

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blank (comparative blanker or more blank, superlative blankest or most blank)

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.
3. Without expression.

   When asked, his answer was a blank stare. When asked again his stare was even more blank.

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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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• (bullet that doesn't harm): blank cartridge, blank bullet

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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.

3. To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.

   The team was blanked.

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blank (neuter blankt, definite and plural blanke, comparative blankere, superlative blankest)

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

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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