English Dictionary

blank

/blæŋk/

noun

(archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .

The old castle stood on a blank hill.

意味（1）

(archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .

Whosoeuer brought a fagot before the kynges tent, he shulde haue a blanke of Fraunce.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].

意味（3）

The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .

Des. […] And stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech! (Act III, scene 11)

意味（4）

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].

[…] and in Fortune's Lottery lies / A heap of Blanks, like this, for one ſmall Prize.

意味（5）

A space to be filled in on a form or template.

Write your answers in the blanks.

意味（6）

Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .

意味（7）

An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .

意味（8）

An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].

意味（9）

(literature) Blank verse .

意味（10）

Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].

意味（11）

(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].

意味（12）

(figuratively) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].

Du. And what's her hiſtory?

Du. And what's her hiſtory? Vio. A blanke my Lord:

意味（13）

The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].

意味（14）

An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].

My head is so ill that I cannot write a paper full as I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.

意味（15）

A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]

意味（16）

The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

意味（17）

(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.

the double blank

意味（18）

(firearms) Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].

It was an unloaded gun that fired only blanks.

意味（19）

(chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.

意味（20）

(slang) Infertile semen.