Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word blank. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in blank.
Definitions and meaning of blank
blank
Etymology
From Middle Englishblank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Normanblonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old Frenchblanc, 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 Germanblanch(“shining, bright, white”) (Germanblank), Old Englishblanc(“white, grey”), blanca(“white steed”), Spanishblanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
blank paper
a blank check
a blank ballot
a blank CD
(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
Absolute; downright; sheer.
There was a look of blank terror on his face.
a blank refusal to cooperate
Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
Descendants
Belizean Creole: blank
Translations
Noun
blank (pluralblanks)
(archaic, historical, obsolete) 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 [15th–17th century].
(obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
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 [since the 16th century].
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
An empty space; a void, for example on a paper [since the 16th century].
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
Write your answers in the blanks.
Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee [since the 19th century].
(now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form [since the 16th century].
An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all [since the 17th century].
An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
(literature) Blank verse [since the 16th century].
(mechanics, engineering) A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping [since the 16th century].
Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
The 1 / 230400 of a grain [17th century].
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
(firearms)Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
(figurative, in the expression ‘shooting blanks’, sports) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
(chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
(slang) Infertile semen.
Synonyms
(bullet that doesn't harm):blank cartridge, blank bullet
Translations
Verb
blank (third-person singular simple presentblanks, present participleblanking, simple past and past participleblanked)
(transitive) To make void; to erase.
(transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
(transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
(transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
(intransitive) To become blank.
(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
Usage notes
Almost any sense of this can occur with out. See blank out.
From Middle Low Germanblank, from Old Saxonblank, from Proto-West Germanic*blank.
Adjective
blank
shiny, reflective, glossy
Antonym:mat
(of e.g. paper) empty, blank, bearing no inscription or drawings
direct, without circumvention or additions
(colloquial) broke (without money)
Synonym:flad
(colloquial) ignorant, clueless
Inflection
References
“blank” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutchblanc, from Old Dutch*blank, from Proto-West Germanic*blank, from Proto-Germanic*blankaz.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /blɑŋk/
Hyphenation: blank
Rhymes: -ɑŋk
Adjective
blank (comparativeblanker, superlativeblankst)
white, pale
white (having a light skin tone)
Synonym:wit
Coordinate terms:zwart, bruin, donker
not written or printed on
Do you have a blank sheet of paper for me?
Synonym:blanco
colorless, transparent
pure
Usage notes
(having a light skin tone):Blank is the traditional word for “white” in Dutch, particularly in Europe, and is usually intended as a neutral descriptor. It is sometimes asserted to be tainted by the colonial era and to have a supposed connotation of cleanliness and purity. Certain people, in particular people of colour and activists, and media in Europetherefore prefer wit since the late 2010s, possibly influenced by other languages, although blank remains very common among white people. See Blank en wit in het racismedebat on the Dutch Wikipedia.
Inflection
Derived terms
blank staan
blankvoorn
Descendants
Afrikaans: blank
German
Etymology
From Middle High Germanblanc, from Old High Germanblanc(“shining, bright”), from Proto-West Germanic*blank. Doublet of Plenk.
(card games) being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)
Declension
Derived terms
blitzblank
Further reading
“blank” in Duden online
“blank” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“blank” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low Germanblank.
Adjective
blank (masculine and feminineblank, neuterblankt, definite singular and pluralblanke, comparativeblankere, indefinite superlativeblankest, definite superlativeblankeste)