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Meaning of "blank" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BLANK

From Old French blanc white, of Germanic origin; related to Old English blanca a white horse.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BLANK

blank  [blæŋk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLANK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blank is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb blank in English.

WHAT DOES BLANK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of blank in the English dictionary

The first definition of blank in the dictionary is bearing no marks; not written on. Other definition of blank is with spaces left for details to be filled in. Blank is also without ornament or break; unrelieved.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLANK

PRESENT

Present
I blank
you blank
he/she/it blanks
we blank
you blank
they blank
Present continuous
I am blanking
you are blanking
he/she/it is blanking
we are blanking
you are blanking
they are blanking
Present perfect
I have blanked
you have blanked
he/she/it has blanked
we have blanked
you have blanked
they have blanked
Present perfect continuous
I have been blanking
you have been blanking
he/she/it has been blanking
we have been blanking
you have been blanking
they have been blanking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I blanked
you blanked
he/she/it blanked
we blanked
you blanked
they blanked
Past continuous
I was blanking
you were blanking
he/she/it was blanking
we were blanking
you were blanking
they were blanking
Past perfect
I had blanked
you had blanked
he/she/it had blanked
we had blanked
you had blanked
they had blanked
Past perfect continuous
I had been blanking
you had been blanking
he/she/it had been blanking
we had been blanking
you had been blanking
they had been blanking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will blank
you will blank
he/she/it will blank
we will blank
you will blank
they will blank
Future continuous
I will be blanking
you will be blanking
he/she/it will be blanking
we will be blanking
you will be blanking
they will be blanking
Future perfect
I will have blanked
you will have blanked
he/she/it will have blanked
we will have blanked
you will have blanked
they will have blanked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been blanking
you will have been blanking
he/she/it will have been blanking
we will have been blanking
you will have been blanking
they will have been blanking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would blank
you would blank
he/she/it would blank
we would blank
you would blank
they would blank
Conditional continuous
I would be blanking
you would be blanking
he/she/it would be blanking
we would be blanking
you would be blanking
they would be blanking
Conditional perfect
I would have blank
you would have blank
he/she/it would have blank
we would have blank
you would have blank
they would have blank
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been blanking
you would have been blanking
he/she/it would have been blanking
we would have been blanking
you would have been blanking
they would have been blanking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you blank
we let´s blank
you blank
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to blank
Past participle
blanked
Present Participle
blanking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLANK


banc
bæŋk
bank
bæŋk
blankety-blank
ˈblæŋkɪtɪˈblæŋk
clank
klæŋk
crank
kræŋk
dank
dæŋk
drank
dræŋk
flank
flæŋk
franc
fræŋk
frank
fræŋk
gangplank
ˈɡæŋˌplæŋk
hank
hæŋk
lank
læŋk
outflank
ˌaʊtˈflæŋk
Planck
plæŋk
plank
plæŋk
prank
præŋk
rank
ræŋk
tank
tæŋk
thank
θæŋk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLANK

blandly
blandness
blank cartridge
blank cheque
blank endorsement
blank verse
blanket
blanket bath
blanket bog
blanket finish
blanket stitch
blanket-stitch
blanketflower
blanketlike
blanketweed
blankety
blankety-blank
blankly
blankness
blanky

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLANK

central bank
draw a blank
endorsement in blank
fuel tank
garboard plank
land bank
national bank
point-blank
sank
skank
spank
state bank
stop plank
the West Bank
think tank
walk the plank
wank
West Bank
World Bank
wrest plank

Synonyms and antonyms of blank in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BLANK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «blank» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of blank

Translation of «blank» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLANK

Find out the translation of blank to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blank from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blank» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

空白的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en blanco
570 millions of speakers

English

blank
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रिक्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فَارِغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пустой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

em branco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফাঁকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vide
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kosong
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

leer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

白紙の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

ra ono isine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெற்று
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रिक्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

boş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vuoto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pusty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чистий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gol
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κενός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leë
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tom
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blank
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blank

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLANK»

The term «blank» is very widely used and occupies the 4.805 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of blank
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «blank».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLANK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «blank» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «blank» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blank

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10 QUOTES WITH «BLANK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blank.
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Peter Ackroyd
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
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Peter Ackroyd
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
3
Jenny Agutter
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
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A. R. Ammons
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Rodney Atkins
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
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Mary Badham
I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.
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Julian Baggini
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.
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Milton Berle
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
9
Daniel Boulud
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
10
Stan Brakhage
The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLANK»

Discover the use of blank in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blank and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Point Blank: An Alex Rider Adventure
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Anthony Horowitz, 2006
2
Virgin: The Untouched History
Hanne Blank's revolutionary, rich, and entertaining survey of an astonishing untouched history reveals why humans have been fixated on an indefinable state of being since the dawn of time.
Hanne Blank, 2008
3
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings.
Steven Pinker, 2003
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Blank Confession
A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
Pete Hautman, 2011
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Blank: The Power of Not Actually Thinking at All (A Mindless ...
A smart, hilarious parody of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling Blink. Stop! Don't think! You already know what this book is about. That is the power of Blank: the power of not actually thinking at all.
Noah Tall, 2006
6
Kurt Cobain
A revised and completely updated edition of the Nirvana lead singer's biography is now available to the legions of fans as they mourn the tenth anniversary of his death.
Christopher Sandford, 2004
7
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's ...
This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the ...
Trevor Paglen, 2009
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Our Story: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journal of Our Relationship
This book helps readers create a treasured record of their love, memories, and future together. This book also includes a special front-cover photo window and provides space for pictures throughout.
Alex A. Lluch, 2008
9
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for ...
This near-encyclopedic guide unlocks the secrets to startup success - walking you, step-by-step, through the tested and proven Customer Development process created by startup expert Steve Blank.
Steven G. Blank, Bob Dorf, 2012
10
Drawing a Blank: Improving Comprehension for Readers on the ...
This practical resource provides educational professionals and parents with the tools to improve comprehension for good decoders who have reading comprehension difficulties, as well as readers who struggle with both decoding and ...
Emily Iland, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLANK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blank is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jon Niese Throws a Gem as the Mets Blank the Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — Chris Heston turned and watched the ball Ruben Tejada had just stroked into the outfield, and then Heston turned and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Swift's 'Blank Space' video fastest to reach 1 billion views
Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" video, which was released online via Vevo last November, has hit one million views and become the fastest to do ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
3
Bay Street's 'blank-cheque companies' should elicit caution
Four months into Canada's experiment with “blank-cheque companies,” the results seem wildly encouraging. With three deals already sold, ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
4
Victoria HCats break out at plate, blank Kitsap
Victoria HCats break out at plate, blank Kitsap. Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist July 6, 2015 10:36 PM. Email; Print. • Times Colonist •. b1-CatsJacks08263.jpg. «Times Colonist, Jul 15»
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Inside the Mercedes design process starting with a blank piece of …
It's easy to spot a designer in a crowd of German car industry execs. Every man in the group wears the same grey Hugo Boss suits and all have ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
6
Fifth-ranked J-Hawks blank No. 6 Kennedy, 4-0
CEDAR RAPIDS – Embroiled in a scoreless top-10 showdown with sixth-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Cedar Rapids Jefferson bided its time ... «The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines, Jul 15»
7
Rome Braves blank RiverDogs, 1-0
The Post and Courier's All-Lowcountry high school softball and baseball teams were honored in a pregame ceremony at the Charleston ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
8
LEGION BASEBALL: Nor-Gwyn, Haynie blank Warrington
First, it played Doylestown in the afternoon and kept its slim Bux-Mont League playoff hopes alive with a one-run victory. Then, 10 minutes ... «The Intelligencer, Jul 15»
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Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' Video Becomes the Fastest to Reach 1 …
The official music video for her hit "Blank Space" has reached 1 billion views on Vevo and become the fastest to do so. After learning of the ... «AceShowbiz, Jul 15»
10
EA Sports on FIFA 16: Carte Blanche on a Blank Canvas
... all of these things are healthy in us creating a directive whereby we want to make a carte blanche blank canvas: you can do what you want. «Gamereactor UK, Jul 15»

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