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Definitions in simple English

blank

If you blank something, you make it empty.

blank

If a piece of paper or something else is blank, it has nothing written on it. I asked Bill for a blank piece of paper, but he gave me one with writing on it. I thought he would sign the check, but he left it blank. The computer screen was completely blank because the computer was off.

blank

A blank is a space or line on a piece of paper or somewhere else where a word or phrase is supposed to be. Fill in the blanks on the legal form.

blank

void of expression a blank stare (= clean, white) (of a surface) not written or printed on blank pages fill in the blank spaces a clean page wide white margins not charged with a bullet a blank cartridge keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet a piece of material ready to be made into something a blank gap or missing part (= space) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet

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Simple sentences

My memory is blank on the subject.
He told me point-blank that I was fired.
Give me a blank sheet of paper.
My mind was blank.
My mind is a blank.
He left the last page blank.
He gave me a blank stare.
The blank spots have vanished from the maps. They have migrated to the history books.
Tom turned in a blank test paper.
Tom handed in a blank test paper.
A blank check? You only see those in movies.
This page has been intentionally left blank.
My mind went blank.
A browser ignores any indentations or blank lines in the source text.
It's blank.
Leave this sheet blank.
Leave a blank space.

Movie subtitles

We draw a fourth card, five of which are blank, the sixth reads murderer - the short straw, if you will.
And Mrs Bathgate refused point blank?
But my bally head's gone blank.
The blank business cards.
I've come to ask you point blank what you mean by writing me these letters.
The trick is to keep your mind a blank.
Before receiving the first degree of the Seventh Old Ray,...your mind must be white and blank.
Your mind is becoming quite blank.
Quite. blank.
Just a blank on the map.
Just make your mind a complete blank.
I thought we'd agree that you were going to make your mind a complete blank.
He'll think they're really letters. only they're nothing but blank paper.
It's clean and blank.
Before receiving the First Degree. of the Seventh Old Ray. your mind must be white and blank.
Quite, quite blank.
You'll ask him point-blank so that he can't misunderstand?
There's nothing like blank verse right after lunch.
Make your mind a blank. Watch me, you can't go wrong.
We agreed you were going to make your mind a complete blank.
All you need is a telegraph blank, some scissors and some glue.
Cut it in strips, do it on the blank.
You drew a blank.
Your prejudice against weakness, your blank intolerance.
When you bumped into this dump fish you said he was a blank check.
A blank vote.
Two blank votes.
There's a cross on the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet. and a nick on the handle of the pistol with the blank.
There is a cross on the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet. and a nick on the handle of the pistol with the blank.
And a mistol on the nozzle of the pistol with the blank.
And a nick on the pullet of the whistle with the blank.
And a nick on the handle of the pistol with the blank.
Yeah, blank.
You drew a blank. You wanted to.
I'm contemptuous of something you can't help or make no attempt to. Your so-called strength. Your prejudice against weakness, your blank intolerance.

News and current affairs

Congress would be abdicating its responsibility if it gave the Treasury secretary a blank cheque.
Paulson had gotten a blank cheque from Congress once before.
Russia has said that it will not give Serbia a blank check, but it will likely support the Serbian government's efforts to isolate and destabilize an independent Kosovo.
It would be sheer folly to suggest that Ukrainians start with a blank slate.
At least one newspaper came out with its news pages completely blank.
Paulson had gotten a blank cheque from Congress once before. That was to deal with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Unlike United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, most emerging-market central bankers are in no position to extend blank checks across their economies without a boomerang effect on interest rates and exchange rates.
China, which has been the Kim dynasty's lifeline, no longer appears willing to offer it a blank check.
His solution landed the housing market in the worst of all worlds: their managements knew that if the blank cheques were filled out they would lose their jobs, so they retrenched and made mortgages more expensive and less available.
He refused to underwrite an expansionist blank check and he was not punished by the electorate for any lack of patriotic ardor.

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