blank
/blæŋk/ noun C2- 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.
- A space to be filled in on a form or template. · Write your answers in the blanks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blank verse.
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“I have to use this room as a place of business,” he said, “and these people are my clients.” Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a “To Let” card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
“It could not have fallen from above, for these, as you see, are all blank walls.
A second was a bedroom, which also drew blank.
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