A Quick and Simple Dictionary

blank

1. Adjective.  Without color; lacking characteristics which give variety.
2. Adjective.  Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
3. Adjective.  Without expression.
4. Noun.  A bullet that does not harm; a cartridge inserted into a gun that fires no projectile.
5. Noun.  A void space on a paper.
6. Noun.  A space to be filled in on a form or template.
7. Noun.  (archaic) 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. Nares.
8. Noun.  (engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
9. Noun.  (context, 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.
10. Noun.  The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
11. Verb.  (transitive) To make void; to erase.
12. Verb.  (transitive, slang) To ignore.
13. Verb.  (transitive) To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
14. Verb.  (intransitive) To become blank.