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Kind of check written to highly sought-after star?
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blank
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blank \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98. See Blink , and cf. 1st Blanch .] Of a white or pale color; without color. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space ] a substitute for a taboo word; "I hit the blank blank car" a blank gap or missing part [syn: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A blank solution is a solution containing little to no analyte of interest, usually used to calibrate instruments such as a colorimeter . According to the EPA, the "primary purpose of blanks is to trace sources of artificially introduced contamination." ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "to nonplus, disconcert, shut up;" 1560s, "to frustrate," from blank (adj.). Sports sense of "defeat (another team) without allowing a score" is from 1870. Meaning "to become blank or empty" is from 1955. Related: Blanked ; blanking .
Usage examples of blank.
Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .
All annoyingly, tantalizingly out of reach, as though viewing a movie through a dense filter, a movie with long gaps of dark screen where her imagination filled in the blanks.
An alien overfullness of sensation paralyzes the nerves, suspends the autonomic processes, hollows out a blank between action and reaction.
Upon a blank sheet of paper, in a brilliant blue ink, the hand of The Shadow wrote the name of Josiah Bartram, as though linking it with past events.
The hand in her crotch began or resumed its motion before the picture blanked, revealing the original blue wall.
The wall blanked to green and remained in that state for many seconds.
A long time ago I learned to keep part of my mind blanked off under your probing.
Kelly stopped cold, realizing that the can screwed onto the barrel blanked out his sights.
There followed ritual courtesies, and the screen blanked which had shown Cajal.
If I say to you Wodget or Crump, you find yourself passing over the fact that these are nothings, these are, so to speak, mere blankety blanks, and trying to think what sort of thing a Wodget or a Crump may be.
Got a car outside and the sooner we get away from this blankety blank madhouse the better.
The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.
Renovated Peabody Estate homes shared space with the blank brick walls of post-war brutalist office blocks.
The screen went blank, to be replaced an instant later by a holographic representation of a section of a magnificent bathroom.
Thrice the horologers have looked into the great crystal globe wherein are foretold all happenings to be, and thrice the globe was blank.