Blank
adjective
Empty or clear, without any marks or writing.
She handed me a blank piece of paper.
Often appears as...
- blank paper
- blank document
adjective
Not showing any feelings or expression.
He stared at me with a blank look.
Often appears as...
- blank stare
- blank look
noun
A space left for someone to fill in, like in a form.
Please fill in the blanks.
Often appears as...
- fill in the blank
- blank space
noun
A cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or in filmmaking.
The actor fired a blank on the movie set.
Often appears as...
- fire a blank
- load a blank
verb
To make something empty or clear by removing marks or writing.
Please blank the blackboard.
Often appears as...
- blank a screen
- blank a paper
adjective
Empty or clear, without any marks or writing.
She handed me a blank piece of paper.
Often appears as...
- blank paper
- blank document
adjective
Not showing any feelings or expression.
He stared at me with a blank look.
Often appears as...
- blank stare
- blank look
noun
A space left for someone to fill in, like in a form.
Please fill in the blanks.
Often appears as...
- fill in the blank
- blank space
noun
A cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or in filmmaking.
The actor fired a blank on the movie set.
Often appears as...
- fire a blank
- load a blank
verb
To make something empty or clear by removing marks or writing.
Please blank the blackboard.
Often appears as...
- blank a screen
- blank a paper
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Potential for Anything
Blank implies something can be filled out or added, often related to creativity or starting fresh.
He looked at the blank canvas, imagining the possibilities.
Pro Tip 2/2Expecting Information
Often anticipates input when something is blank, like completing forms or answering questions.
The application form was sent back because the address field was left blank.
Pro Tip 1/2Potential for Anything
Blank implies something can be filled out or added, often related to creativity or starting fresh.
He looked at the blank canvas, imagining the possibilities.
Pro Tip 2/2Expecting Information
Often anticipates input when something is blank, like completing forms or answering questions.
The application form was sent back because the address field was left blank.
Pro Tip 1/2Potential for Anything
Blank implies something can be filled out or added, often related to creativity or starting fresh.
He looked at the blank canvas, imagining the possibilities.
Pro Tip 2/2Expecting Information
Often anticipates input when something is blank, like completing forms or answering questions.
The application form was sent back because the address field was left blank.
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How I climbed a...
They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent. But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite. There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward,
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The surprising science...
enemy of synthetic happiness and I'm gonna show you why Dilbert already knows of course you're reading the cartoon as I'm talking dogbert's tech-support how come eh I abuse you my printer prints a blank page after every document why would you complain about getting free paper freeze the other users giving my own paper egad man look at the quality of the free
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The moral roots of...
pill let's take let's study some moral psychology and see where it takes us let's start at the beginning what is morality and where does it come from the worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth developmental psychology shown that kids come into the world already knowing so much about the
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How design can help make...
blank look on his face after I'd finished how could I make an impact on the world with science when I couldn't even answer a simple question about our research I wasn't alone struggling with this nearly every group at the research center was struggling to share their work with a broader audience frustrated
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All it takes is 10...
I see a lot of very blank faces. You probably have to go a long way back. And this is an extraordinary thing, right? We're talking about our mind. The mind, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life. The mind that we rely upon
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Listening To Recorded...
always paid the recording back and let the singers listen to themselves on a little earphone blank astonishment was always followed by huge grins of delight you tried to explain what we were doing was they couldn't understand it what we could do was turn a switch and then use
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Is life meaningless? And...
Existentialists believed people were born as blank slates, each responsible for creating their life’s meaning amidst a chaotic world. But Camus rejected their school of thought. He argued all people were born with a shared human nature that bonded them toward common goals.
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New bionics let us run,...
that allowed me to return to the vertical world of rock and ice climbing. I quickly realized that the artificial part of my body is malleable; able to take on any form, any function -- a blank slate for which to create,
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The gift and power of...
Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life. So, how do we begin to dismantle rigidity and embrace emotional agility? As that young schoolgirl, when I leaned into those blank pages,
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Screaming Mummy Mystery...
expensive cedar wood but it was blank totally unadorned in Egyptian theology a man couldn't enter the afterlife without his name so there's something disturbing about the fact that he was left
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How I climbed a...
They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent. But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite. There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes and the smooth granite. I carefully balanced my way upward,
Video examples
The surprising science...
enemy of synthetic happiness and I'm gonna show you why Dilbert already knows of course you're reading the cartoon as I'm talking dogbert's tech-support how come eh I abuse you my printer prints a blank page after every document why would you complain about getting free paper freeze the other users giving my own paper egad man look at the quality of the free
Video examples
The moral roots of...
pill let's take let's study some moral psychology and see where it takes us let's start at the beginning what is morality and where does it come from the worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth developmental psychology shown that kids come into the world already knowing so much about the
Video examples
How design can help make...
blank look on his face after I'd finished how could I make an impact on the world with science when I couldn't even answer a simple question about our research I wasn't alone struggling with this nearly every group at the research center was struggling to share their work with a broader audience frustrated
Video examples
All it takes is 10...
I see a lot of very blank faces. You probably have to go a long way back. And this is an extraordinary thing, right? We're talking about our mind. The mind, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life. The mind that we rely upon
Video examples
Listening To Recorded...
always paid the recording back and let the singers listen to themselves on a little earphone blank astonishment was always followed by huge grins of delight you tried to explain what we were doing was they couldn't understand it what we could do was turn a switch and then use
Video examples
Is life meaningless? And...
Existentialists believed people were born as blank slates, each responsible for creating their life’s meaning amidst a chaotic world. But Camus rejected their school of thought. He argued all people were born with a shared human nature that bonded them toward common goals.
Video examples
New bionics let us run,...
that allowed me to return to the vertical world of rock and ice climbing. I quickly realized that the artificial part of my body is malleable; able to take on any form, any function -- a blank slate for which to create,
Video examples
The gift and power of...
Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life. So, how do we begin to dismantle rigidity and embrace emotional agility? As that young schoolgirl, when I leaned into those blank pages,
Video examples
Screaming Mummy Mystery...
expensive cedar wood but it was blank totally unadorned in Egyptian theology a man couldn't enter the afterlife without his name so there's something disturbing about the fact that he was left
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Ricky Schroder
American Actor
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.
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Forest Whitaker
American Actor
It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
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Kristen Schaal
American Actress
Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.
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Jenson Button
British Athlete
When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg
American Comedian
If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure.
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Sissy Spacek
American Actress
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.
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Simon Travaglia
Author
It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
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Jenny Agutter
English Actress
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
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Joe Walsh
American Musician
I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.
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Hattie Morahan
English Actress
Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.
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Ricky Schroder
American Actor
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.
Quote examples
Forest Whitaker
American Actor
It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
Quote examples
Kristen Schaal
American Actress
Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.
Quote examples
Jenson Button
British Athlete
When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.
Quote examples
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
American Comedian
If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure.
Quote examples
Sissy Spacek
American Actress
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.
Quote examples
Simon Travaglia
Author
It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Quote examples
Jenny Agutter
English Actress
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
Quote examples
Joe Walsh
American Musician
I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.
Quote examples
Hattie Morahan
English Actress
Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.
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