blank
(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
(figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
(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 .
(obsolete) A nonplus {{def-date|16th century}}.
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 .
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated {{def-date|since the 16th century}}.
An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
(U.S.) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
An unprinted leaf of a book {{def-date|20th century}}.
(literature) Blank verse .
(engineering) A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .
Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required {{def-date|since the 19th century}}.
(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus {{def-date|20th century}}.
(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void {{def-date|since the 17th century}}.
The 1 / 230400 of a grain {{def-date|17th century}}.
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory {{def-date|since the 18th century}}.
A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word {{def-date|since the 18th century}}
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
(firearms) (blank cartridge) {{def-date|since the 19th century}}.
(sport) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing {{def-date|since the 20th century}}.
(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.
(slang) Infertile semen.
To make void; to erase.
(slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
(of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
To become blank.
(informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. Note: Usually used in the first person, present progressive tense; and commonly followed by (on) to create a transitive phrasal verb.