Blank

What “Blank” means

Adj

1. White or pale; without colour.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
3. Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
4. Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
5. Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.

Noun

1. 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.
2. A nonplus.
3. 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.
4. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
5. An empty space; a void, for example on a paper.

Verb

1. To make void; to erase.
2. To ignore (a person) deliberately.
3. To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
4. To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
5. To become blank.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

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