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  1. adjective Devoid of writing, images, or marks: a blank page; a blank screen.
  2. adjective Containing no information; unrecorded or erased: a blank tape; a blank diskette.
  3. adjective Not completed or filled in: a blank questionnaire.
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empty ·  dull ·  silent ·  dim ·  vacant ·  gloomy

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blank:   blanks ·  blanking
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  1. Middle English, white, having spaces to be filled in, from Old French blanc, white, of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also blanc, blanck; from Middle English blank, feminine blanche (see blanch, a.), from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, white (= Provencal blanc = Spanish blanco = Portuguese branco = Italian bianco; Middle Latin blancus), from Old High German blanch, Middle High German blanc, German blank, shining, bright (= Middle Low German blank = Dutch blank = Swedish Danish blank, shining, = Anglo-Saxon *blanc, only in poetical deriv. blanca, a white or gray horse, Middle English blanke, blonke, Scots blonk; cf. Icelandic blakkr, poetical, a horse, steed); usually referred to a Teutonic verb *blinkan (preterit *blank), shine, which, however, is not found in the older tongues: see blink. In the sense of a coin (II., 7, 8), Old French blanc, Middle Low German blank, Middle Dutch blancke (Middle Latin blanca), orig. with reference to the color of silver.
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