How to pronounce “blank”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (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.
• [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 [15th–17th century].
• (obsolete) A nonplus [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 [since the 16th century].
• A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
• An empty space; a void, for example on a paper [since the 16th century].
• (now chiefly US) 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 [since the 16th century].
• (literature) Blank verse [since the 16th century].
• (mechanics, 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 [since the 16th century].
• (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
• The 1 / 230400 of a grain [17th century].
• An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
• A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [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.
• (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
• (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
• (figurative, in the expression ‘shooting blanks’, sports) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make void; to erase.
• (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
• (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
• (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
• (intransitive) To become blank.
• (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)

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