Usually means: Empty space devoid of content.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word blank:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. blank: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blank: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blank: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blank, blank: Wordnik
  6. blank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Blank, blank: Wiktionary
  8. blank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. blank: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Blank, blank: Dictionary.com
  12. blank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. blank: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Blank (archeology), Blank (cartridge), Blank (disambiguation), Blank (horse), Blank (playing card), Blank (solution), Blank (surname), Blank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Blank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. blank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. blank: Rhymezone
  18. blank, blank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. blank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. blank: Free Dictionary
  21. blank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. blank: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Blank: Numismatic Dictionary
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. blank: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Blank (Scrabble), blank: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. blank: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blank: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Blank: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. blank, blank, blank, blank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blank: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Blank: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. The Blank: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blank: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  4. Blank: Poker Terms
  5. Blank: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. blank: Coin Collecting

(Note: See blanked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
adjective:  Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
adjective:  (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
adjective:  Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
adjective:  (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
adjective:  Utterly confounded or discomfited.
adjective:  Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
adjective:  Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
adjective:  (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 .
noun:  (obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
noun:  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 .
noun:  A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
noun:  An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
noun:  A space to be filled in on a form or template.
noun:  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 .
noun:  (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 .
noun:  An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
noun:  An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
noun:  (literature) Blank verse .
noun:  (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 .
noun:  Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
noun:  (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
noun:  (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
noun:  The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
noun:  An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
noun:  A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
noun:  The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
noun:  (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
noun:  (figurative, in the expression ‘shooting blanks’, sports) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
noun:  (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.
noun:  (slang) Infertile semen.
verb:  (transitive) To make void; to erase.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
verb:  (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
verb:  (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
verb:  (intransitive) To become blank.
verb:  (intransitive, 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.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (chiefly dated) Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name.
noun:  (firearms) Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].

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