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Bad thing to draw during a test
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a blank cheque (= signed but without the amount written on it ) ▪ I wasn't sure how much the tickets would be so I gave her a blank cheque. a blank page (= with nothing on it ) ▪ There were a couple of blank ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blank \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking .] [Cf. 3d Blanch .] To make void; to annul. [Obs.] --Spenser. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context archaic English) White or pale; without colour. 2 Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. n. 1 A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke ...
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.