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blank /ˈblæŋk/
空白,空格(a.)空白的,空虛的,完全的,失色的(vi.)留空白(vt.)使無效,取消
blank
空白
Blank a.
1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon
Her office they prescribed. --Milton.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton.
4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. “Blank and horror-stricken faces.”
The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. --G. Eliot.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
Blank bar Law, a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; -- called also common bar.
Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball.
Blank deed. See Deed.
Blank door, or Blank window Arch., a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.
Blank indorsement Law, an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on the back of the bill.
Blank line Print., a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
Blank tire Mech., a tire without a flange.
Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind.
Blank verse. See under Verse.
Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.
Blank n.
1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you. --Swift.
From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. --Hallam.
I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. --G. Eliot.
2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
In Fortune's lottery lies
A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. --Dryden.
3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. --Palfrey.
4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
Let me still remain
The true blank of thine eye. --Shak.
6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.]
I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure
For my free speech. --Shak.
7. 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.
8. Mech. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
9. 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.
Blank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.]
1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.]
2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. --Shak.
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blank
adj 1: of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages";
"fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide
white margins" [syn: clean, white]
2: void of expression; "a blank stare"
3: not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge"
n 1: a blank character used to separate successive words in
writing or printing; "he said the space is the most
important character in the alphabet" [syn: space]
2: a substitute for a taboo word; "I hit the blank blank car"
3: a blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna]
4: a piece of material ready to be made into something
5: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[syn: dummy, blank shell]
v : keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning