Definition of blank in English:

blank

adjective blaŋkblæŋk

1(of a surface or background) unrelieved by decorative or other features; bare, empty, or plain.
（表面，背景）无装饰的；空白的
a blank wall
空白的墙壁。
the screen went blank
屏幕变成一片空白。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have turned away from him and am concentrating on the very blank, very white wall in front of me.
- Only one structure blotted the blank landscape.
- His essay offers an intriguing interpretation of a Tudor portrait featuring five enigmatically blank panels.
- See your own aura by standing about three feet in front of a mirror with a blank wall behind you.
- The blank background beautifully reflects the tonal differences, conjuring up the stark light of the Mediterranean and the murky tones of America.
- He would roam the streets looking for nice blank surfaces to paint the letter of the day on.
- This is the equivalent of a cultural vacuum, a blank canvas, an empty stage.
- It features blank walls and a recliner placed in the middle of the room.
- It's a surprising journey to get from this blank surface to the finished thing, and it isn't a straight line.
- I wanted to do something interesting with the top of the case, which is currently just a blank surface.
- On one side there was the blank wall of the back of a shopping centre.
- Do you sometimes spend hours staring at a blank wall?
- I found another microwave that had a completely blank front, with the buttons hidden inside the door.
- He was an empty vessel, a blank template waiting to be completed.
- I got myself some food and drinks and sat on the couch-bed staring at a blank plasma flat screen TV.
- The photograph facing the title page says it all - it simply shows a wall, blank but for an empty picture hook.
- Police fear the vandals will view clean walls as a blank canvas.
- The room seem pretty bare, blank walls, holding that nasty lonely chill inside.
- In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
- He thought as he was staring at the shockingly blank white walls.
Synonyms
empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white
1. 1.1 Not written or printed on.
  未写字的，未印刷的
  a blank sheet of paper
  一张空白纸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The professor said he found an empty notebook, with blank pages which the poet had never found time to write on.
  His boss set him to cutting and pasting blank sheets of profile paper into strips of varying dimensions for later use in the field.
  Seira pulled out a pencil and some sheets of blank manuscript paper.
  Staring confused at the blank envelope I moved to my kitchen counter.
  We had to run out and buy a blank book for her to record daydreams and nightdreams, and she's been at it for a week now.
  She set the pencil to a blank sheet of paper and began to draw.
  I wrote my name on a blank sheet of notebook paper, and tried to push it into the shredder, but I couldn't quite line the paper up with the feed.
  On it he put a sheet of blank paper and a packet of crayons before he pulled over a chair.
  Sighing, I took out a blank sheet of scrap paper and started brainstorming.
  He went into his room and pulled out a blank sheet of paper and pen and he began to write a reply letter.
  The police brought him in, gave him a blank sheet to write down what he did the day before, and then released him.
  Slip a sheet of blank paper or an entire magazine into the baggie.
  The four-page statement was printed on blank paper.
  Teddy grabbed the crayons and a sheet of blank paper and began to write and colour.
  One national daily yesterday featured a blank front page, explaining below that it had been reserved for a victory picture that never came.
  I start with a blank sheet of paper and I just write a sentence.
  First thing I did was to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and write up a ‘wish list’ of all the things I'd like to have in the campaign.
  The agent flipped the paper over only to find that it was a blank sheet of paper.
  When his first son, William, was born, Darwin took an old notebook and began to record his development in its blank pages.
  He wrote his first outlines in longhand on large blank sheets of paper.
  Synonyms
  empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white
  vacant, void
2. 1.2 (of a document) with spaces left for a signature or details.
  （文件）留有空白处的
  blank tax-return forms
  空白纳税申报单。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They have no names, their birth certificates are blank.
  At first she assumed he was coding data, but finally caught him completing blank questionnaires.
  Another employee had a spreadsheet she was certain was corrupted because it came up completely blank when opened.
  First, it will be recalled that errors made by customers when completing blank bank giro credit forms led to unacceptable delays in payments being made.
  I had him just sign a blank loan document and that's all it took to drag him in.
  He pulled out the drawer of his desk and got out a blank American passport.
  She had gotten back to the blank document she had started earlier.
  Since 1990, there have been over 19,050 blank passports that have been stolen from Belgium.
  Since last year, more than 15,000 blank passports have been stolen in France.
  When the scoresheet is blank and the incident at a premium, the search is for statistics.
  Young men were beaten and tortured while in police custody, then forced to sign blank depositions.
  How trusted are the people who handle the blank documents, or the databases those documents are tied into?
  She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract.
  They also found blank visa forms for several countries.
  Student participation was voluntary - students who did not participate were advised to return a blank questionnaire.
  Many travel documents in the existing Interpol database are blank passports stolen from consulates around the world.
  The speaker's statement indicated that there was evidence that some members provided signed blank warrants to the travel agents.
  If participants did not experience anything unusual, they were instructed to simply return the blank questionnaire.
  Instead, he turned and replaced the invoice with his blank warrant, quickly copying over the address.
  This word processor starts up in about three seconds on a decent system and takes about 5MB of memory for a blank document.
3. 1.3 (of a tape) with nothing recorded on it.
  （磁带）没有录制的，空白的
  blank cassettes
  空白盒式磁带。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I missed a bunch of it - I had to take a phone call, and couldn't find a blank tape for the VCR.
  When they took the stage a few hours later, they were armed with a tape recorder and a stack of blank cassettes.
  It turned out that the tape was blank and had not been used to record the conversation.
  That was when we discovered that the video code hadn't worked and the tape was blank.
  The recordings are available and there are several minutes of blank tape at the end of each side.
  In kindergarten, each student brings a blank videotape to school which is then used in succeeding years to record the interviews.
  Ensure you have a digital video camera with a fully charged battery and plenty of blank tapes.
  To do this you will need a microphone, a tape recorder or CD recorder, and blank tapes or CD's.
  My colleague rewinds the tape to find it is blank; the recorder failed.
  No more scrambling to find a blank tape when you unexpectedly come across an interesting programme that's just starting - simply hit record.
  He caught up with me later in the afternoon and pressed a blank tape into my hand and bashfully asked if I could make him a copy of it.
  Applying a levy on blank tapes, MiniDiscs, CD-Rs and the like, and to the hardware that writes data to them, will be resisted.
  Each student will get a blank tape and video recorder.
  By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio.
  I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
  There was also a blank tape, just in case you felt like making use of the hotel's video recording service.
  Like CDR, blank DVD-R discs are recorded in a DVD-R drive that is controlled by a host computer.
  Before I went out of the car, I made sure that the recorder had a blank tape inside or else my project would be in jeopardy.
  Contestants are asked to bring along a blank tape on the night of registration so that a copy can be made of the song chosen.
  It records on more types of blank disks than the others, but its built-in TV tuner is mono, not stereo.
2Showing a lack of comprehension or reaction.
茫然的，呆滞的
we were met by blank looks
我们看到的是茫然的表情。
Example sentencesExamples
- The image of her empty eyes and blank face was burnt into his memory.
- For a second his dad just stood there with no expression at all, his eyes were blank and empty.
- I tried my best to give them a blank look and express confusion at the stated declaration, but it was hopeless.
- Her first reaction was a blank look at the receptionist.
- When she arranged a time for me to go into the radio station and record the interview I expected to be greeted with blank looks.
- All I could offer him was a blank stare, emerald eyes clouded with confusion and apprehension.
- She spoke softly, her features carefully blank.
- Some stared back, a blank, empty stare that chilled to the bone.
- He waited to see her reaction, but only got a blank stare in return, so he continued his explanation.
- He looked dazed and confused with a blank stare on his face.
- I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space.
- He arranged his terror-struck features into a blank mask.
- His face is blank but his eyes are full of hatred, confusion and fear.
- She decided to go straight to the point when she noticed my blank and confused expression.
- The actual reactions run the gamut from blank stares to gently-furrowed brows.
- He looks momentarily confused, his face going blank until it hardens.
- Her face was blank; its lack of expression scared him.
- She watched the pair intently, impeccable mastery of her emotions leaving her features completely blank.
- She just stared at the floor with a blank look on her face as the president spoke up.
- Now at that point, faces just sort of go blank, people are dumbfounded.
Synonyms
expressionless, empty, vacant, deadpan, wooden, stony, impassive, inanimate, poker-faced, vacuous, glazed, fixed, lifeless, uninterested, emotionless, unresponsive, inscrutable
baffled, nonplussed, mystified, stumped, at a loss, stuck, puzzled, perplexed, bewildered, bemused, ignorant, lost, muddled, uncomprehending, befuddled, fuddled, addled, (all) at sea, at sixes and sevens, confused
informal clueless, flummoxed, bamboozled, discombobulated, fazed, beaten
1. 2.1 Temporarily having no knowledge or understanding.
  一时懵懂的，大脑一时空白的
  her mind went blank
  屏幕变成一片空白。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She sighed, enjoying the absolutely blank state of her mind at the moment.
  He looks me directly in the eye, and I want to say something but my mind is absolutely blank.
  He went completely blank as he saw the beauty that entered his office.
  About 5 minutes after they leave for their conference, the food will arrive. The waiter looks at you questioningly, and your mind goes blank.
  Slight anger stirred inside my temporarily blank mind, what about me?
  This caught her off guard, then her mind went temporarily blank.
  Now with a blank mind she has nothing left to type.
  When the kids came along, my mind went completely blank.
  My mind went completely blank as the words ran through my head.
  I'll sit there, trying so hard to think of something to say but it isn't even a matter of willing myself to say it, my mind is blank.
  I really should be able to think of loads more bad film titles, but I've gone completely blank.
  If you ask someone in attendance to recount these scenes you're likely to get a blank response and a claim of a lack of memory.
  My brain remained stubbornly blank and I was forced to stalk back into the house without getting in a final shot.
  John, though his memory was blank, seemed to understand the world around him well enough.
  Sit in the lotus position on the floor and let your mind go blank. repeat these words.
  While, it's neither advisable nor possible to stop thinking, try practicing keeping the mind blank or empty, even for some fleeting seconds.
2. 2.2 Lacking incident or result.
  无活动的，单调的，无结果的
  those blank moments aboard airplanes
  在飞机上的那些沉闷的时刻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nobody had their putting stroke in the best mode, resulting in another blank day for the twos pool and another pot to carry forward to next week's outing.
3attributive Complete; absolute (used emphatically with negative force)
十足的，绝顶的
he was met with a blank refusal to discuss the issue
他提出讨论一下这个问题，但遭到断然拒绝。
Example sentencesExamples
- What's interesting about the posts on the website is this blank refusal to accept the true nature of freedom of speech.
- On the unionist side, there was a blank refusal to consider power sharing.
- I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one frustrated with his blank lack of understanding.
- You give hugely to the town and the country but when you look for a little back for yourself, you get a blank refusal.
- I don't believe that could happen today, one of my students sighed in blank refusal of this simple chain of reasoning.
- But he was isolated, and something more than a blank refusal was required.
- Those advisers who urged on him an expression of contrition as a way of finding closure met with a blank refusal.
- This movie aims to evoke the same mystery, but settles for a sense of blank perplexity.
Synonyms
outright, absolute, categorical, unqualified, utter, complete, thorough, flat, straight, positive, certain, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, plain, clear, clear-cut
4Used euphemistically in place of an adjective regarded as obscene, profane, or abusive.
用作委婉语，替代淫秽、亵渎或辱骂的形容词
show the miserable blank-blank Englishman how to fight this war
教那个一天到晚绷着脸的英国可怜虫怎样打这场战争。
Example sentencesExamples
- That whole blanking thing is very ugly, isn't it?

noun blaŋkblæŋk

1A space left to be filled in a document.
（文件中待填写的）空白处
leave blanks to type in the appropriate names
留下空白以便打上适当的名称。
Example sentencesExamples
- I want to fill in the blanks, dot the i's and cross the t's.
- More accurate and logical profiling requires restraint: leave the usual labels and formulas in template until you have enough facts to thoroughly fill in the blanks.
- She picked up a new gold nib black ink pen and started filling in blanks in the contract.
- The UN has now called in the ‘motherland’ countries, to try to fill in the blanks on the draft plan.
- He left blanks for inserting names and levels of government to create an instant press release of sorts.
- The analysis presented here shows that filling in some blanks in the current matrix will not overturn the optimal hypothesis it supports.
- This is your chance to fill in the blanks on a missive already written, then simply post it off to the public figure in question.
- The list of employees now has a number of blanks in the salary column.
- Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons.
- Question 1 was a database question, with several blanks, and two queries to be filled in.
- It had colloquial English phrases and you had to fill in the blanks.
- Someone from marketing, sales, or [fill in the blank with a department] will always throw a wrench into the project.
- He trekked thousands of miles along the northern coast of North America to fill in the blanks on regional maps.
- I knew all the key terms and I knew what to put in the blanks, but I just couldn't think straight enough to write anything.
- I'd been accumulating information and photographs, but when it came time to write it I knew I'd have to uncover more to fill in the blanks.
- The concept is simple enough: take a 9x9 square and fill in the blanks so each number from one to nine appears in each row, column and 3x3 section only once.
- The teacher must have been quite surprised at the way he filled in the blanks in the questions at the end of each lesson.
- Well if you had a form I suppose I could fill in the blanks and get the boss to sign it.
- If you're only looking for certain vocabulary words in certain places, why not just offer an essay template where students fill in the blanks?
- Their birth certificates contained blanks in the section identifying their fathers.
Synonyms
space, gap, blank space, empty space
1. 1.1 A document with blank spaces to be filled.
  空白文件，空白表格
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prescription blanks must not be stored in patient examination rooms.
  We answered all the questions and filled out the blanks in full.
  In addition to controlled storage, prescription blanks are serialized, and the dispersal of all prescription pads and storage destination is documented by pharmacy staff.
  With a pad of blanks and the punch, I could mark my own transfers and travel anywhere that L.A. buses went.
  In this country, town governments issue passports, so thieves frequently break into the town hall and steal blanks.
2. 1.2 A domino with one or both halves blank.
  空白的多米诺骨牌
2A cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or as a signal.
（用作打靶训练或发信号的）空包弹
Example sentencesExamples
- The bullets were blanks in our desert, but the situations and attitudes of the soldiers we reported on were as real as they come.
- When I learned to shoot a gun, I never practiced with real bullets, or even blanks.
- So perhaps it was a real gun and a real head, but does a blank constitute a real bullet?
- Unbeknownst to our finalist, four of these bullets are blanks.
- In addition, officers collected nine guns designed to fire blanks, but capable of being converted to fire live ammunition.
- He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks.
- Only blanks were used for the Royal war games when she visited the armed forces at Portsmouth.
- The guns fire blanks but can be adapted to shoot real bullets.
- It was the first time I'd fired a weapon, I felt a little nervous even though the bullets were only blanks.
- Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
- Bullets, he didn't know whether they were blanks or not, whizzed past him, inches from his face.
- It was something I should have noticed, blanks looked different than the real ammo we work with.
- She let the cartridges of blanks drop to the ground and reloaded with live fire.
- She said 1,797 rounds of assorted ammunition, including blanks, and 13 other weapons, including knives, had also been handed in.
- In each of the shops, there are display cases full of replica weapons capable of firing plastic or metal ballbearings or blanks.
- By day five, soldiers receive weapon's safety instructions, carry a magazine of blanks and continually conduct weapons safety procedures.
- ‘The darn gun was loaded with blanks,’ she said.
- No one on the firing squad knows whether their gun has a bullet or a blank.
- This stage furnishes the ammunition for two .45 Colt sixguns, .45 caliber blanks with enough blast to pop balloons but not send bullets around haphazardly.
- Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest.
3An empty space or period of time, especially in terms of a lack of knowledge or understanding.
（尤指对情况的了解或理解上的）空白
my mind was a total blank
我什么都不知道。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her mind was a total blank and she kept staring at the wall in front of her.
- Today is one of those ‘blogless’ days where my mind is a blank so this will be short!
- I've a good memory, a very good memory, but my mind is a total blank.
- Even though I recognised people, my mind was a total blank.
- Our knowledge of the singer's childhood and youth is practically a total blank.
- It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.
- I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
- She was looking at him with big, round, hopeful eyes, her lips quivering, and his mind was a total blank.
- The stunning reality of the battle pushed Alex's mind into total blank.
- It's just a total blank, as though everyone had forgotten about that bit of the world.
- He said all the drinks at the event had been free and believes their beers may have been spiked because of his total blank about the evening.
- At this point, brain, spirit and soul were all on overload and a total blank arrived.
- I was so nervous I put my slides upside down on the projector, dropped my folder and had a complete mind blank half way through.
- So while Shakespeare's life is not a total blank, it does contain a lot of empty spaces.
Synonyms
void, vacuum, emptiness, vacancy
4A piece of metal or wood intended for further shaping or finishing.
（金属或木头的）坯件，坯料
Example sentencesExamples
- People couldn't believe how easy it was pick many simple locks using little more than a key blank and a screw driver.
- Multidirectional core reduction techniques produced a wide variety of larger reduction flakes that formed blanks for small tools.
- The technique traditionally has involved filing a key blank into a set of teeth that rest against each of the pins in a pin and tumbler lock.
- The hydroforming process forms a heated metal blank into a desired shape by means of hydraulic pressure.
- They do not have grip safeties, so a blank must be welded onto the frame and then finished by hand.
- Worthing shaped the blank into a traditional British style and finished the wood with a hand-rubbed oil finish.
- Wheel blanks vary in width from 7.5 in. to 12 in. and in length from 26 in. to 40 in.
1. 4.1 A plain metal disc from which a coin is made by stamping a design on it.
  （待压印图案的）硬币坯料
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Central Bank expects to sell them to the manufacturers of coin blanks in Europe.
  The country's largest stainless steel making outfit, has bagged an order to supply coin blanks to the French national mint.
  You put the die on a coin blank and hit it with a big hammer to mould the impression into the metal.
5A dash written instead of a word or letter, especially instead of an obscenity or profanity.
（用来代替淫秽或亵渎词语的）代字破折号
Example sentencesExamples
- But, more importantly, you'll find a blank for words that should not appear.
- The way we would test them is we would sing it a few times and then leave something out - Astrolabe, Quadrant and blank blank blank will find a new blank to the East.
1. 5.1 Used euphemistically in place of a noun regarded as obscene, profane, or abusive.
  用作委婉语，替代淫秽、亵渎或辱骂的形容词

verb blaŋkblæŋk

[with object]

1Make (something) blank or empty.
成为空白，变得模糊不清
electronic countermeasures blanked out the radar signals
电子对抗手段消隐了雷达信号。
Example sentencesExamples
- Before he died, fellow captives heard the prisoner, whose name is blanked out in the document, ‘screaming and asking for assistance’.
- ‘He deals with bad news by blanking it out,’ she answers for him.
- The eyes of the 22 alleged thieves were blanked out.
- The next day the picture of the lorry was in a number of newspapers, and, although they blanked the register and name out, they still publicised the company.
- That excuse was suddenly blanked out by the image before him.
- Swear words were blanked out, but much more offensive racist remarks were left in.
- Shouting was a waste of time, so to blank it out I used to stick on the headphones.
- I can't remember what it was, I've blanked it out.
- He blanked his mind of everything and stopped thinking.
- I blanked out my mind for a bit just thinking and sorting things out in my head.
- Your address is blanked out, but your name must be included on the roll, otherwise we are unable to confirm your identity when you vote.
- You may notice that I've blanked out the price.
- In a clear breach of Netiquette, it spammed all twenty with the same reply and failed to blank the identity of the recipients.
- The story tells of the sun being completely blanked out and stars being seen.
- The next three pages of that all-important document are completely blanked out.
- A lot of the text in the documents is blanked out, including, intriguingly, the distribution list!
- When the documents were delivered, apart from a few names and addresses and incidental matters, they were completely blanked out.
- The people are blanked out to allow you to receive the full horrific impact of their trashy homes.
- Every sentence, even every heading is blanked out and will remain classified, insofar as those two agencies are concerned.
- Whether I've just blanked it out in my head, I just don't remember making that decision.
Synonyms
envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay
1. 1.1no object Become blank or empty.
  成为空白，变得模糊不清
  the picture blanked out
  图像变得模糊不清。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He rose from his little nap in the middle of the street, then realized where he was, and what had happened before he blanked out.
  Her mind blanked out and she felt lost as if in a dream.
  After performing the cigar sequence, something landed on my head and I blanked out.
  Wait, I must have blanked out while I was typing it.
  Jesse had suddenly blanked out and it scared her.
  I closed my eyes for a second, and as I tried to breath, my mind blanked out and my hands began to shake.
  Even though he had the uneasy feeling that she was disappointed in him, he felt bereft when her image, too, blanked out.
  Her mind had momentarily blanked out when she realized the mistake she had made.
  I blanked out completely, too tired to think of a lie.
  Jennifer blanked out soon after her body took to running outside the building.
  Minae bowed her head, her mind blanking at his cold tone.
  Her mind began blanking, lulled by the soft weight of his hand stroking her cheek.
  In a ‘zone,’ she blanked out on us and didn't say another single thing the whole time.
  My mind blanked out and I was no longer aware of my surroundings, falling into another dream.
  He had written it on his calendar, in his planner and left a reminder on his cell phone and his mind still completely blanked out at remembering that piece of news.
  I think I froze and blanked out for a second, because the next thing I knew he had walked up to me, taken my hand in his, and was kissing it.
  A second before I blanked out, cold water connected with my forehead.
  He completely blanked out, lost in thought again.
  Ray's image blanked out and he held his hand out to me on last time.
  As soon as he hit the ground, everything blanked out.
2. 1.2 Cut (a metal blank)
  切割（金属坯件）
  the complete core disc can be blanked out in one piece
2North American informal Defeat (a sports team) without allowing them to score.
〈北美〉（体育比赛中以对手得零分的成绩）战胜（对手）
Baltimore blanked Toronto in a 7–0 victory
巴尔的摩队以7比0的成绩完胜多伦多队。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Midget Raiders blanked the Eagles 43- last Saturday in Steinbach.
- A tenacious Minnesota defense helped send the Flyers to their eighth shutout loss of the season, the most since they were blanked eight times in 1969 / 1970.
- Landmark won games three and four in a row last Thursday as they blanked the Eagles 5- and edged Mitchell 8-7.
- By blanking Chicago, it was the fourth consecutive shutout, a feat that had been accomplished in the American League by only the 1903 Indians and the 1932 Yankees.
- Also in Division Two, FC Japan blanked Roosevelt Island International 4 -.
3British informal Deliberately ignore (someone)
〈英，非正式〉故意不理睬，故意忽视
I just blanked them and walked out
我故意不理他们，走出去了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Walking right into John, my heart froze with fear, but instead of looking at me with anger/realisation/love etc, he blanked me!
- I either saw someone who was Robyn's doppelganger today, or it was actually Robyn and she blanked me.
- He had it out with his friend about the way he's been blanking him.
- After their affair has gone sour, he finds she's blanking him when they meet; it's as if they've never known each other.
- Rather than blanking her, have you thought about taking her out for a meal, just you and her, and actually telling her that you think your relationship has got out of balance.
- It's always disconcerting when you smile at someone and they just blank you.
- I haven't seen him for ages but the last two times I've tried to make contact he's blanked me.
- I spent a lot of time trying to get clearance from the soft rock band but they completely blanked it.
- At least this time she said hello to me, most of the time she blanks me.
- I don't get the guy - I mean just yesterday he totally blanked me but now he's winking at me.
- Some days he looks at you and some days he blanks you.
- Despite phone calls and emails, our man behind this public-spirited deed was completely blanked by the software empire.
- His instinct was to blank his questioners, shake hands with the leader and exit swiftly.
- I want to develop our relationship, but sometimes I feel like blanking her calls.
- The actor has slammed his co-star for claiming he deliberately blanked him on the set of the boxing movie.
- It wasn't that he blanked you, but you just knew you weren't part of the gang.
- I watch him blank the room service waiter, who will presumably have to clean up the tomato sauce mess later.
- I sent an email last night to someone who's been blanking me for the last few days.
- ‘I've been blanking his phone calls,’ says Ritchie.
- I felt she was blanking me and never thought about the fact that there were television cameras on us.
Synonyms
ignore, take no notice of, take no account of, pay no attention to, pay no heed to, refuse to acknowledge

Phrases

be firing (or shooting) blanks

informal (of a man) be infertile.
〈幽默〉（男性）无生育能力
Example sentencesExamples
- He's probably been firing blanks for years, but wouldn't admit it for a second - after all, a man isn't really a man if he can't hit the target.
- Will my princess be disappointed when she discovers I am firing blanks?

draw a blank

Elicit no successful response; fail.
得不到想得到的回应（或信息）；失败
the search drew a blank
搜寻失败了。
Example sentencesExamples
- By Saturday, the negotiators working ahead of Wednesday's summit had drawn a blank: there will be nothing beyond a statement of broad principles.
- As if out of habit, he went online and entered the words in the search engine, but drew a blank.
- Within days of his death, they went to the home of his widow and daughters to conduct an early-morning search, but drew a blank.
- Inquires made by the administrative officer on my behalf have drawn a blank.
- The journalist drew a blank when he tried to find out more from villagers.
- Police investigations at the time drew a blank, and no firm reason could be found for his disappearance.
- As their searches drew a blank, fears grew that she had been abducted, or even run away from the school party.
- Many searches ultimately draw a blank, but people do turn up on occasion.
- The inspector said today that conventional methods of identification, including DNA and fingerprinting, had drawn a blank.
- Detectives initially drew a blank as no one of that name was registered missing.

Derivatives

blankness

noun ˈblaŋknəsˈblæŋknəs

Out of the blankness that floated thickly through my mind, one thing bluntly shone its way through.
Example sentencesExamples
- He had experienced that blankness before.
- His eyes closed as if in slow motion and a blankness overpowered him.
- She searched his face, looking for any indication of his recognition, but still there was nothing but blankness.
- The blankness of space was bombarded by a series of explosions coming from all directions.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'white, colourless'): from Old French blanc 'white', ultimately of Germanic origin.

blancmange from Late Middle English:
In medieval times a blancmange was a dish of white meat or fish in a cream sauce—the ‘dessert’ sense seems to have come into use in the middle of the 16th century. The word is from Old French blanc mangier and literally means ‘white food’. Other words from French blanc include blanch (Middle English), blank (Middle English), and blanket (Middle English). Originally blanket referred to undyed (hence ‘white’) woollen cloth used for clothing. A dampened blanket would sometimes be used to extinguish a fire before going to bed. This is the origin of a wet blanket, a term for someone who spoils other people's fun by refusing to join in or by showing disapproval.

Rhymes

ankh, bank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank

Definition of blank in US English:

blank

adjectiveblæŋkblaNGk

1(of a surface or background) unrelieved by decorative or other features; bare, empty, or plain.
（表面，背景）无装饰的；空白的
a blank wall
空白的墙壁。
the blank skyline
Example sentencesExamples
- It features blank walls and a recliner placed in the middle of the room.
- I have turned away from him and am concentrating on the very blank, very white wall in front of me.
- On one side there was the blank wall of the back of a shopping centre.
- I found another microwave that had a completely blank front, with the buttons hidden inside the door.
- He was an empty vessel, a blank template waiting to be completed.
- The photograph facing the title page says it all - it simply shows a wall, blank but for an empty picture hook.
- I got myself some food and drinks and sat on the couch-bed staring at a blank plasma flat screen TV.
- Police fear the vandals will view clean walls as a blank canvas.
- See your own aura by standing about three feet in front of a mirror with a blank wall behind you.
- His essay offers an intriguing interpretation of a Tudor portrait featuring five enigmatically blank panels.
- In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
- It's a surprising journey to get from this blank surface to the finished thing, and it isn't a straight line.
- He would roam the streets looking for nice blank surfaces to paint the letter of the day on.
- I wanted to do something interesting with the top of the case, which is currently just a blank surface.
- The room seem pretty bare, blank walls, holding that nasty lonely chill inside.
- He thought as he was staring at the shockingly blank white walls.
- The blank background beautifully reflects the tonal differences, conjuring up the stark light of the Mediterranean and the murky tones of America.
- Only one structure blotted the blank landscape.
- This is the equivalent of a cultural vacuum, a blank canvas, an empty stage.
- Do you sometimes spend hours staring at a blank wall?
Synonyms
empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white
1. 1.1 Not written or printed on.
  未写字的，未印刷的
  a blank sheet of paper
  一张空白纸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On it he put a sheet of blank paper and a packet of crayons before he pulled over a chair.
  Sighing, I took out a blank sheet of scrap paper and started brainstorming.
  He wrote his first outlines in longhand on large blank sheets of paper.
  We had to run out and buy a blank book for her to record daydreams and nightdreams, and she's been at it for a week now.
  Slip a sheet of blank paper or an entire magazine into the baggie.
  First thing I did was to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and write up a ‘wish list’ of all the things I'd like to have in the campaign.
  Staring confused at the blank envelope I moved to my kitchen counter.
  I wrote my name on a blank sheet of notebook paper, and tried to push it into the shredder, but I couldn't quite line the paper up with the feed.
  The four-page statement was printed on blank paper.
  When his first son, William, was born, Darwin took an old notebook and began to record his development in its blank pages.
  The professor said he found an empty notebook, with blank pages which the poet had never found time to write on.
  She set the pencil to a blank sheet of paper and began to draw.
  Seira pulled out a pencil and some sheets of blank manuscript paper.
  His boss set him to cutting and pasting blank sheets of profile paper into strips of varying dimensions for later use in the field.
  The police brought him in, gave him a blank sheet to write down what he did the day before, and then released him.
  The agent flipped the paper over only to find that it was a blank sheet of paper.
  I start with a blank sheet of paper and I just write a sentence.
  Teddy grabbed the crayons and a sheet of blank paper and began to write and colour.
  He went into his room and pulled out a blank sheet of paper and pen and he began to write a reply letter.
  One national daily yesterday featured a blank front page, explaining below that it had been reserved for a victory picture that never came.
  Synonyms
  empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white
2. 1.2 (of a document) with spaces left for a signature or details.
  （文件）留有空白处的
  blank tax-return forms
  空白纳税申报单。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At first she assumed he was coding data, but finally caught him completing blank questionnaires.
  Instead, he turned and replaced the invoice with his blank warrant, quickly copying over the address.
  How trusted are the people who handle the blank documents, or the databases those documents are tied into?
  First, it will be recalled that errors made by customers when completing blank bank giro credit forms led to unacceptable delays in payments being made.
  He pulled out the drawer of his desk and got out a blank American passport.
  Young men were beaten and tortured while in police custody, then forced to sign blank depositions.
  She had gotten back to the blank document she had started earlier.
  Since last year, more than 15,000 blank passports have been stolen in France.
  The speaker's statement indicated that there was evidence that some members provided signed blank warrants to the travel agents.
  They have no names, their birth certificates are blank.
  When the scoresheet is blank and the incident at a premium, the search is for statistics.
  Student participation was voluntary - students who did not participate were advised to return a blank questionnaire.
  Another employee had a spreadsheet she was certain was corrupted because it came up completely blank when opened.
  Since 1990, there have been over 19,050 blank passports that have been stolen from Belgium.
  This word processor starts up in about three seconds on a decent system and takes about 5MB of memory for a blank document.
  Many travel documents in the existing Interpol database are blank passports stolen from consulates around the world.
  They also found blank visa forms for several countries.
  She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract.
  I had him just sign a blank loan document and that's all it took to drag him in.
  If participants did not experience anything unusual, they were instructed to simply return the blank questionnaire.
3. 1.3 (of a tape) with nothing recorded on it.
  （磁带）没有录制的，空白的
  blank cassettes
  空白盒式磁带。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When they took the stage a few hours later, they were armed with a tape recorder and a stack of blank cassettes.
  By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio.
  It records on more types of blank disks than the others, but its built-in TV tuner is mono, not stereo.
  I missed a bunch of it - I had to take a phone call, and couldn't find a blank tape for the VCR.
  I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
  Ensure you have a digital video camera with a fully charged battery and plenty of blank tapes.
  Like CDR, blank DVD-R discs are recorded in a DVD-R drive that is controlled by a host computer.
  In kindergarten, each student brings a blank videotape to school which is then used in succeeding years to record the interviews.
  It turned out that the tape was blank and had not been used to record the conversation.
  Before I went out of the car, I made sure that the recorder had a blank tape inside or else my project would be in jeopardy.
  There was also a blank tape, just in case you felt like making use of the hotel's video recording service.
  To do this you will need a microphone, a tape recorder or CD recorder, and blank tapes or CD's.
  Applying a levy on blank tapes, MiniDiscs, CD-Rs and the like, and to the hardware that writes data to them, will be resisted.
  My colleague rewinds the tape to find it is blank; the recorder failed.
  The recordings are available and there are several minutes of blank tape at the end of each side.
  Contestants are asked to bring along a blank tape on the night of registration so that a copy can be made of the song chosen.
  That was when we discovered that the video code hadn't worked and the tape was blank.
  He caught up with me later in the afternoon and pressed a blank tape into my hand and bashfully asked if I could make him a copy of it.
  No more scrambling to find a blank tape when you unexpectedly come across an interesting programme that's just starting - simply hit record.
  Each student will get a blank tape and video recorder.
2Showing incomprehension or no reaction.
茫然的，呆滞的
we were met by blank looks
我们看到的是茫然的表情。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her face was blank; its lack of expression scared him.
- His face is blank but his eyes are full of hatred, confusion and fear.
- He looked dazed and confused with a blank stare on his face.
- She spoke softly, her features carefully blank.
- He looks momentarily confused, his face going blank until it hardens.
- When she arranged a time for me to go into the radio station and record the interview I expected to be greeted with blank looks.
- He waited to see her reaction, but only got a blank stare in return, so he continued his explanation.
- She watched the pair intently, impeccable mastery of her emotions leaving her features completely blank.
- Some stared back, a blank, empty stare that chilled to the bone.
- She decided to go straight to the point when she noticed my blank and confused expression.
- Her first reaction was a blank look at the receptionist.
- The actual reactions run the gamut from blank stares to gently-furrowed brows.
- I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space.
- For a second his dad just stood there with no expression at all, his eyes were blank and empty.
- Now at that point, faces just sort of go blank, people are dumbfounded.
- All I could offer him was a blank stare, emerald eyes clouded with confusion and apprehension.
- He arranged his terror-struck features into a blank mask.
- She just stared at the floor with a blank look on her face as the president spoke up.
- The image of her empty eyes and blank face was burnt into his memory.
- I tried my best to give them a blank look and express confusion at the stated declaration, but it was hopeless.
Synonyms
expressionless, empty, vacant, deadpan, wooden, stony, impassive, inanimate, poker-faced, vacuous, glazed, fixed, lifeless, uninterested, emotionless, unresponsive, inscrutable
baffled, nonplussed, mystified, stumped, at a loss, stuck, puzzled, perplexed, bewildered, bemused, ignorant, lost, muddled, uncomprehending, befuddled, fuddled, addled, at sea, all at sea, at sixes and sevens, confused
1. 2.1 Having temporarily no knowledge or understanding.
  一时懵懂的，大脑一时空白的
  her mind went blank
  屏幕变成一片空白。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sit in the lotus position on the floor and let your mind go blank. repeat these words.
  He looks me directly in the eye, and I want to say something but my mind is absolutely blank.
  He went completely blank as he saw the beauty that entered his office.
  I'll sit there, trying so hard to think of something to say but it isn't even a matter of willing myself to say it, my mind is blank.
  My mind went completely blank as the words ran through my head.
  My brain remained stubbornly blank and I was forced to stalk back into the house without getting in a final shot.
  This caught her off guard, then her mind went temporarily blank.
  I really should be able to think of loads more bad film titles, but I've gone completely blank.
  Now with a blank mind she has nothing left to type.
  Slight anger stirred inside my temporarily blank mind, what about me?
  She sighed, enjoying the absolutely blank state of her mind at the moment.
  While, it's neither advisable nor possible to stop thinking, try practicing keeping the mind blank or empty, even for some fleeting seconds.
  John, though his memory was blank, seemed to understand the world around him well enough.
  When the kids came along, my mind went completely blank.
  If you ask someone in attendance to recount these scenes you're likely to get a blank response and a claim of a lack of memory.
  About 5 minutes after they leave for their conference, the food will arrive. The waiter looks at you questioningly, and your mind goes blank.
2. 2.2 Lacking incident or result.
  无活动的，单调的，无结果的
  those blank moments aboard airplanes
  在飞机上的那些沉闷的时刻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nobody had their putting stroke in the best mode, resulting in another blank day for the twos pool and another pot to carry forward to next week's outing.
3attributive Complete; absolute (used emphatically with negative force)
十足的，绝顶的
he was met with a blank refusal to discuss the issue
他提出讨论一下这个问题，但遭到断然拒绝。
Example sentencesExamples
- This movie aims to evoke the same mystery, but settles for a sense of blank perplexity.
- On the unionist side, there was a blank refusal to consider power sharing.
- Those advisers who urged on him an expression of contrition as a way of finding closure met with a blank refusal.
- I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one frustrated with his blank lack of understanding.
- What's interesting about the posts on the website is this blank refusal to accept the true nature of freedom of speech.
- I don't believe that could happen today, one of my students sighed in blank refusal of this simple chain of reasoning.
- You give hugely to the town and the country but when you look for a little back for yourself, you get a blank refusal.
- But he was isolated, and something more than a blank refusal was required.
Synonyms
outright, absolute, categorical, unqualified, utter, complete, thorough, flat, straight, positive, certain, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, plain, clear, clear-cut

nounblæŋkblaNGk

1A space left to be filled in a document.
（文件中待填写的）空白处
leave blanks to type in the appropriate names
留下空白以便打上适当的名称。
this measure required subjects to fill in the blanks in a story
Example sentencesExamples
- The list of employees now has a number of blanks in the salary column.
- Well if you had a form I suppose I could fill in the blanks and get the boss to sign it.
- Question 1 was a database question, with several blanks, and two queries to be filled in.
- He trekked thousands of miles along the northern coast of North America to fill in the blanks on regional maps.
- More accurate and logical profiling requires restraint: leave the usual labels and formulas in template until you have enough facts to thoroughly fill in the blanks.
- He left blanks for inserting names and levels of government to create an instant press release of sorts.
- This is your chance to fill in the blanks on a missive already written, then simply post it off to the public figure in question.
- It had colloquial English phrases and you had to fill in the blanks.
- Someone from marketing, sales, or [fill in the blank with a department] will always throw a wrench into the project.
- The teacher must have been quite surprised at the way he filled in the blanks in the questions at the end of each lesson.
- I knew all the key terms and I knew what to put in the blanks, but I just couldn't think straight enough to write anything.
- The analysis presented here shows that filling in some blanks in the current matrix will not overturn the optimal hypothesis it supports.
- She picked up a new gold nib black ink pen and started filling in blanks in the contract.
- If you're only looking for certain vocabulary words in certain places, why not just offer an essay template where students fill in the blanks?
- I'd been accumulating information and photographs, but when it came time to write it I knew I'd have to uncover more to fill in the blanks.
- Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons.
- Their birth certificates contained blanks in the section identifying their fathers.
- The concept is simple enough: take a 9x9 square and fill in the blanks so each number from one to nine appears in each row, column and 3x3 section only once.
- I want to fill in the blanks, dot the i's and cross the t's.
- The UN has now called in the ‘motherland’ countries, to try to fill in the blanks on the draft plan.
Synonyms
space, gap, blank space, empty space
1. 1.1 A document with blank spaces to be filled.
  空白文件，空白表格
  Example sentencesExamples
  We answered all the questions and filled out the blanks in full.
  With a pad of blanks and the punch, I could mark my own transfers and travel anywhere that L.A. buses went.
  Prescription blanks must not be stored in patient examination rooms.
  In addition to controlled storage, prescription blanks are serialized, and the dispersal of all prescription pads and storage destination is documented by pharmacy staff.
  In this country, town governments issue passports, so thieves frequently break into the town hall and steal blanks.
2. 1.2 A domino with one or both halves blank.
  空白的多米诺骨牌
2A cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or as a signal.
（用作打靶训练或发信号的）空包弹
Example sentencesExamples
- It was the first time I'd fired a weapon, I felt a little nervous even though the bullets were only blanks.
- The guns fire blanks but can be adapted to shoot real bullets.
- She let the cartridges of blanks drop to the ground and reloaded with live fire.
- When I learned to shoot a gun, I never practiced with real bullets, or even blanks.
- Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
- In each of the shops, there are display cases full of replica weapons capable of firing plastic or metal ballbearings or blanks.
- He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks.
- In addition, officers collected nine guns designed to fire blanks, but capable of being converted to fire live ammunition.
- ‘The darn gun was loaded with blanks,’ she said.
- It was something I should have noticed, blanks looked different than the real ammo we work with.
- By day five, soldiers receive weapon's safety instructions, carry a magazine of blanks and continually conduct weapons safety procedures.
- No one on the firing squad knows whether their gun has a bullet or a blank.
- The bullets were blanks in our desert, but the situations and attitudes of the soldiers we reported on were as real as they come.
- She said 1,797 rounds of assorted ammunition, including blanks, and 13 other weapons, including knives, had also been handed in.
- Bullets, he didn't know whether they were blanks or not, whizzed past him, inches from his face.
- So perhaps it was a real gun and a real head, but does a blank constitute a real bullet?
- Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest.
- Only blanks were used for the Royal war games when she visited the armed forces at Portsmouth.
- Unbeknownst to our finalist, four of these bullets are blanks.
- This stage furnishes the ammunition for two .45 Colt sixguns, .45 caliber blanks with enough blast to pop balloons but not send bullets around haphazardly.
3An empty space or period of time, especially in terms of a lack of knowledge or understanding.
（尤指对情况的了解或理解上的）空白
my mind was a total blank
我什么都不知道。
Example sentencesExamples
- He said all the drinks at the event had been free and believes their beers may have been spiked because of his total blank about the evening.
- At this point, brain, spirit and soul were all on overload and a total blank arrived.
- Our knowledge of the singer's childhood and youth is practically a total blank.
- Even though I recognised people, my mind was a total blank.
- I was so nervous I put my slides upside down on the projector, dropped my folder and had a complete mind blank half way through.
- It's just a total blank, as though everyone had forgotten about that bit of the world.
- So while Shakespeare's life is not a total blank, it does contain a lot of empty spaces.
- She was looking at him with big, round, hopeful eyes, her lips quivering, and his mind was a total blank.
- It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank.
- The stunning reality of the battle pushed Alex's mind into total blank.
- I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
- Today is one of those ‘blogless’ days where my mind is a blank so this will be short!
- I've a good memory, a very good memory, but my mind is a total blank.
- Her mind was a total blank and she kept staring at the wall in front of her.
Synonyms
void, vacuum, emptiness, vacancy
4A roughly cut metal or wooden block intended for further shaping or finishing.
（金属或木头的）坯件，坯料
Example sentencesExamples
- Multidirectional core reduction techniques produced a wide variety of larger reduction flakes that formed blanks for small tools.
- The technique traditionally has involved filing a key blank into a set of teeth that rest against each of the pins in a pin and tumbler lock.
- People couldn't believe how easy it was pick many simple locks using little more than a key blank and a screw driver.
- Worthing shaped the blank into a traditional British style and finished the wood with a hand-rubbed oil finish.
- Wheel blanks vary in width from 7.5 in. to 12 in. and in length from 26 in. to 40 in.
- The hydroforming process forms a heated metal blank into a desired shape by means of hydraulic pressure.
- They do not have grip safeties, so a blank must be welded onto the frame and then finished by hand.
1. 4.1 A plain metal disk from which a coin is made by stamping a design on it.
  （待压印图案的）硬币坯料
  Example sentencesExamples
  The country's largest stainless steel making outfit, has bagged an order to supply coin blanks to the French national mint.
  You put the die on a coin blank and hit it with a big hammer to mould the impression into the metal.
  The Central Bank expects to sell them to the manufacturers of coin blanks in Europe.
5A dash written instead of a word or letter, especially instead of an obscenity or profanity.
（用来代替淫秽或亵渎词语的）代字破折号
Example sentencesExamples
- The way we would test them is we would sing it a few times and then leave something out - Astrolabe, Quadrant and blank blank blank will find a new blank to the East.
- But, more importantly, you'll find a blank for words that should not appear.
1. 5.1 Used euphemistically in place of a noun regarded as obscene, profane, or abusive.
  用作委婉语，替代淫秽、亵渎或辱骂的形容词

verbblæŋkblaNGk

[with object]

1Cover up, obscure, or cause to appear blank or empty.
掩盖；使模糊不清；使显得空白
electronic countermeasures blanked out the radar signals
电子对抗手段消隐了雷达信号。
Example sentencesExamples
- I can't remember what it was, I've blanked it out.
- The eyes of the 22 alleged thieves were blanked out.
- Every sentence, even every heading is blanked out and will remain classified, insofar as those two agencies are concerned.
- The next day the picture of the lorry was in a number of newspapers, and, although they blanked the register and name out, they still publicised the company.
- He blanked his mind of everything and stopped thinking.
- When the documents were delivered, apart from a few names and addresses and incidental matters, they were completely blanked out.
- The people are blanked out to allow you to receive the full horrific impact of their trashy homes.
- That excuse was suddenly blanked out by the image before him.
- The next three pages of that all-important document are completely blanked out.
- The story tells of the sun being completely blanked out and stars being seen.
- I blanked out my mind for a bit just thinking and sorting things out in my head.
- A lot of the text in the documents is blanked out, including, intriguingly, the distribution list!
- You may notice that I've blanked out the price.
- Before he died, fellow captives heard the prisoner, whose name is blanked out in the document, ‘screaming and asking for assistance’.
- In a clear breach of Netiquette, it spammed all twenty with the same reply and failed to blank the identity of the recipients.
- Your address is blanked out, but your name must be included on the roll, otherwise we are unable to confirm your identity when you vote.
- Swear words were blanked out, but much more offensive racist remarks were left in.
- ‘He deals with bad news by blanking it out,’ she answers for him.
- Whether I've just blanked it out in my head, I just don't remember making that decision.
- Shouting was a waste of time, so to blank it out I used to stick on the headphones.
Synonyms
envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay
1. 1.1no object Become blank or empty.
  成为空白，变得模糊不清
  the picture blanked out
  图像变得模糊不清。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As soon as he hit the ground, everything blanked out.
  In a ‘zone,’ she blanked out on us and didn't say another single thing the whole time.
  Jennifer blanked out soon after her body took to running outside the building.
  He rose from his little nap in the middle of the street, then realized where he was, and what had happened before he blanked out.
  Her mind blanked out and she felt lost as if in a dream.
  My mind blanked out and I was no longer aware of my surroundings, falling into another dream.
  He had written it on his calendar, in his planner and left a reminder on his cell phone and his mind still completely blanked out at remembering that piece of news.
  A second before I blanked out, cold water connected with my forehead.
  I blanked out completely, too tired to think of a lie.
  Minae bowed her head, her mind blanking at his cold tone.
  Her mind began blanking, lulled by the soft weight of his hand stroking her cheek.
  He completely blanked out, lost in thought again.
  Her mind had momentarily blanked out when she realized the mistake she had made.
  I think I froze and blanked out for a second, because the next thing I knew he had walked up to me, taken my hand in his, and was kissing it.
  After performing the cigar sequence, something landed on my head and I blanked out.
  Jesse had suddenly blanked out and it scared her.
  Even though he had the uneasy feeling that she was disappointed in him, he felt bereft when her image, too, blanked out.
  Ray's image blanked out and he held his hand out to me on last time.
  Wait, I must have blanked out while I was typing it.
  I closed my eyes for a second, and as I tried to breath, my mind blanked out and my hands began to shake.
2. 1.2 Cut (a metal blank)
  切割（金属坯件）
  the complete core disk can be blanked out in one piece
2North American informal Defeat (a sports opponent) without allowing the opposition to score.
〈北美〉（体育比赛中以对手得零分的成绩）战胜（对手）
Baltimore blanked Toronto in a 7–0 victory
巴尔的摩队以7比0的成绩完胜多伦多队。
Example sentencesExamples
- By blanking Chicago, it was the fourth consecutive shutout, a feat that had been accomplished in the American League by only the 1903 Indians and the 1932 Yankees.
- A tenacious Minnesota defense helped send the Flyers to their eighth shutout loss of the season, the most since they were blanked eight times in 1969 / 1970.
- Also in Division Two, FC Japan blanked Roosevelt Island International 4 -.
- The Midget Raiders blanked the Eagles 43- last Saturday in Steinbach.
- Landmark won games three and four in a row last Thursday as they blanked the Eagles 5- and edged Mitchell 8-7.

Phrases

be firing (or shooting) blanks

informal (of a man) be infertile.
〈幽默〉（男性）无生育能力
Example sentencesExamples
- Will my princess be disappointed when she discovers I am firing blanks?
- He's probably been firing blanks for years, but wouldn't admit it for a second - after all, a man isn't really a man if he can't hit the target.

draw a blank

Elicit no successful response; fail.
得不到想得到的回应（或信息）；失败
the search drew a blank
搜寻失败了。
Example sentencesExamples
- By Saturday, the negotiators working ahead of Wednesday's summit had drawn a blank: there will be nothing beyond a statement of broad principles.
- Many searches ultimately draw a blank, but people do turn up on occasion.
- The journalist drew a blank when he tried to find out more from villagers.
- Within days of his death, they went to the home of his widow and daughters to conduct an early-morning search, but drew a blank.
- Detectives initially drew a blank as no one of that name was registered missing.
- As their searches drew a blank, fears grew that she had been abducted, or even run away from the school party.
- Police investigations at the time drew a blank, and no firm reason could be found for his disappearance.
- Inquires made by the administrative officer on my behalf have drawn a blank.
- As if out of habit, he went online and entered the words in the search engine, but drew a blank.
- The inspector said today that conventional methods of identification, including DNA and fingerprinting, had drawn a blank.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘white, colorless’): from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin.

词汇	blank
释义	Definition of blank in English: blank adjective blaŋkblæŋk 1(of a surface or background) unrelieved by decorative or other features; bare, empty, or plain. （表面，背景）无装饰的；空白的 a blank wall 空白的墙壁。 the screen went blank 屏幕变成一片空白。 Example sentencesExamples I have turned away from him and am concentrating on the very blank, very white wall in front of me. Only one structure blotted the blank landscape. His essay offers an intriguing interpretation of a Tudor portrait featuring five enigmatically blank panels. See your own aura by standing about three feet in front of a mirror with a blank wall behind you. The blank background beautifully reflects the tonal differences, conjuring up the stark light of the Mediterranean and the murky tones of America. He would roam the streets looking for nice blank surfaces to paint the letter of the day on. This is the equivalent of a cultural vacuum, a blank canvas, an empty stage. It features blank walls and a recliner placed in the middle of the room. It's a surprising journey to get from this blank surface to the finished thing, and it isn't a straight line. I wanted to do something interesting with the top of the case, which is currently just a blank surface. On one side there was the blank wall of the back of a shopping centre. Do you sometimes spend hours staring at a blank wall? I found another microwave that had a completely blank front, with the buttons hidden inside the door. He was an empty vessel, a blank template waiting to be completed. I got myself some food and drinks and sat on the couch-bed staring at a blank plasma flat screen TV. The photograph facing the title page says it all - it simply shows a wall, blank but for an empty picture hook. Police fear the vandals will view clean walls as a blank canvas. The room seem pretty bare, blank walls, holding that nasty lonely chill inside. In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background. He thought as he was staring at the shockingly blank white walls. Synonyms empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white 1.1 Not written or printed on. 未写字的，未印刷的 a blank sheet of paper 一张空白纸。 Example sentencesExamples The professor said he found an empty notebook, with blank pages which the poet had never found time to write on. His boss set him to cutting and pasting blank sheets of profile paper into strips of varying dimensions for later use in the field. Seira pulled out a pencil and some sheets of blank manuscript paper. Staring confused at the blank envelope I moved to my kitchen counter. We had to run out and buy a blank book for her to record daydreams and nightdreams, and she's been at it for a week now. She set the pencil to a blank sheet of paper and began to draw. I wrote my name on a blank sheet of notebook paper, and tried to push it into the shredder, but I couldn't quite line the paper up with the feed. On it he put a sheet of blank paper and a packet of crayons before he pulled over a chair. Sighing, I took out a blank sheet of scrap paper and started brainstorming. He went into his room and pulled out a blank sheet of paper and pen and he began to write a reply letter. The police brought him in, gave him a blank sheet to write down what he did the day before, and then released him. Slip a sheet of blank paper or an entire magazine into the baggie. The four-page statement was printed on blank paper. Teddy grabbed the crayons and a sheet of blank paper and began to write and colour. One national daily yesterday featured a blank front page, explaining below that it had been reserved for a victory picture that never came. I start with a blank sheet of paper and I just write a sentence. First thing I did was to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and write up a ‘wish list’ of all the things I'd like to have in the campaign. The agent flipped the paper over only to find that it was a blank sheet of paper. When his first son, William, was born, Darwin took an old notebook and began to record his development in its blank pages. He wrote his first outlines in longhand on large blank sheets of paper. Synonyms empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white vacant, void 1.2 (of a document) with spaces left for a signature or details. （文件）留有空白处的 blank tax-return forms 空白纳税申报单。 Example sentencesExamples They have no names, their birth certificates are blank. At first she assumed he was coding data, but finally caught him completing blank questionnaires. Another employee had a spreadsheet she was certain was corrupted because it came up completely blank when opened. First, it will be recalled that errors made by customers when completing blank bank giro credit forms led to unacceptable delays in payments being made. I had him just sign a blank loan document and that's all it took to drag him in. He pulled out the drawer of his desk and got out a blank American passport. She had gotten back to the blank document she had started earlier. Since 1990, there have been over 19,050 blank passports that have been stolen from Belgium. Since last year, more than 15,000 blank passports have been stolen in France. When the scoresheet is blank and the incident at a premium, the search is for statistics. Young men were beaten and tortured while in police custody, then forced to sign blank depositions. How trusted are the people who handle the blank documents, or the databases those documents are tied into? She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract. They also found blank visa forms for several countries. Student participation was voluntary - students who did not participate were advised to return a blank questionnaire. Many travel documents in the existing Interpol database are blank passports stolen from consulates around the world. The speaker's statement indicated that there was evidence that some members provided signed blank warrants to the travel agents. If participants did not experience anything unusual, they were instructed to simply return the blank questionnaire. Instead, he turned and replaced the invoice with his blank warrant, quickly copying over the address. This word processor starts up in about three seconds on a decent system and takes about 5MB of memory for a blank document. 1.3 (of a tape) with nothing recorded on it. （磁带）没有录制的，空白的 blank cassettes 空白盒式磁带。 Example sentencesExamples I missed a bunch of it - I had to take a phone call, and couldn't find a blank tape for the VCR. When they took the stage a few hours later, they were armed with a tape recorder and a stack of blank cassettes. It turned out that the tape was blank and had not been used to record the conversation. That was when we discovered that the video code hadn't worked and the tape was blank. The recordings are available and there are several minutes of blank tape at the end of each side. In kindergarten, each student brings a blank videotape to school which is then used in succeeding years to record the interviews. Ensure you have a digital video camera with a fully charged battery and plenty of blank tapes. To do this you will need a microphone, a tape recorder or CD recorder, and blank tapes or CD's. My colleague rewinds the tape to find it is blank; the recorder failed. No more scrambling to find a blank tape when you unexpectedly come across an interesting programme that's just starting - simply hit record. He caught up with me later in the afternoon and pressed a blank tape into my hand and bashfully asked if I could make him a copy of it. Applying a levy on blank tapes, MiniDiscs, CD-Rs and the like, and to the hardware that writes data to them, will be resisted. Each student will get a blank tape and video recorder. By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio. I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre. There was also a blank tape, just in case you felt like making use of the hotel's video recording service. Like CDR, blank DVD-R discs are recorded in a DVD-R drive that is controlled by a host computer. Before I went out of the car, I made sure that the recorder had a blank tape inside or else my project would be in jeopardy. Contestants are asked to bring along a blank tape on the night of registration so that a copy can be made of the song chosen. It records on more types of blank disks than the others, but its built-in TV tuner is mono, not stereo. 2Showing a lack of comprehension or reaction. 茫然的，呆滞的 we were met by blank looks 我们看到的是茫然的表情。 Example sentencesExamples The image of her empty eyes and blank face was burnt into his memory. For a second his dad just stood there with no expression at all, his eyes were blank and empty. I tried my best to give them a blank look and express confusion at the stated declaration, but it was hopeless. Her first reaction was a blank look at the receptionist. When she arranged a time for me to go into the radio station and record the interview I expected to be greeted with blank looks. All I could offer him was a blank stare, emerald eyes clouded with confusion and apprehension. She spoke softly, her features carefully blank. Some stared back, a blank, empty stare that chilled to the bone. He waited to see her reaction, but only got a blank stare in return, so he continued his explanation. He looked dazed and confused with a blank stare on his face. I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space. He arranged his terror-struck features into a blank mask. His face is blank but his eyes are full of hatred, confusion and fear. She decided to go straight to the point when she noticed my blank and confused expression. The actual reactions run the gamut from blank stares to gently-furrowed brows. He looks momentarily confused, his face going blank until it hardens. Her face was blank; its lack of expression scared him. She watched the pair intently, impeccable mastery of her emotions leaving her features completely blank. She just stared at the floor with a blank look on her face as the president spoke up. Now at that point, faces just sort of go blank, people are dumbfounded. Synonyms expressionless, empty, vacant, deadpan, wooden, stony, impassive, inanimate, poker-faced, vacuous, glazed, fixed, lifeless, uninterested, emotionless, unresponsive, inscrutable baffled, nonplussed, mystified, stumped, at a loss, stuck, puzzled, perplexed, bewildered, bemused, ignorant, lost, muddled, uncomprehending, befuddled, fuddled, addled, (all) at sea, at sixes and sevens, confused informal clueless, flummoxed, bamboozled, discombobulated, fazed, beaten 2.1 Temporarily having no knowledge or understanding. 一时懵懂的，大脑一时空白的 her mind went blank 屏幕变成一片空白。 Example sentencesExamples She sighed, enjoying the absolutely blank state of her mind at the moment. He looks me directly in the eye, and I want to say something but my mind is absolutely blank. He went completely blank as he saw the beauty that entered his office. About 5 minutes after they leave for their conference, the food will arrive. The waiter looks at you questioningly, and your mind goes blank. Slight anger stirred inside my temporarily blank mind, what about me? This caught her off guard, then her mind went temporarily blank. Now with a blank mind she has nothing left to type. When the kids came along, my mind went completely blank. My mind went completely blank as the words ran through my head. I'll sit there, trying so hard to think of something to say but it isn't even a matter of willing myself to say it, my mind is blank. I really should be able to think of loads more bad film titles, but I've gone completely blank. If you ask someone in attendance to recount these scenes you're likely to get a blank response and a claim of a lack of memory. My brain remained stubbornly blank and I was forced to stalk back into the house without getting in a final shot. John, though his memory was blank, seemed to understand the world around him well enough. Sit in the lotus position on the floor and let your mind go blank. repeat these words. While, it's neither advisable nor possible to stop thinking, try practicing keeping the mind blank or empty, even for some fleeting seconds. 2.2 Lacking incident or result. 无活动的，单调的，无结果的 those blank moments aboard airplanes 在飞机上的那些沉闷的时刻。 Example sentencesExamples Nobody had their putting stroke in the best mode, resulting in another blank day for the twos pool and another pot to carry forward to next week's outing. 3attributive Complete; absolute (used emphatically with negative force) 十足的，绝顶的 he was met with a blank refusal to discuss the issue 他提出讨论一下这个问题，但遭到断然拒绝。 Example sentencesExamples What's interesting about the posts on the website is this blank refusal to accept the true nature of freedom of speech. On the unionist side, there was a blank refusal to consider power sharing. I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one frustrated with his blank lack of understanding. You give hugely to the town and the country but when you look for a little back for yourself, you get a blank refusal. I don't believe that could happen today, one of my students sighed in blank refusal of this simple chain of reasoning. But he was isolated, and something more than a blank refusal was required. Those advisers who urged on him an expression of contrition as a way of finding closure met with a blank refusal. This movie aims to evoke the same mystery, but settles for a sense of blank perplexity. Synonyms outright, absolute, categorical, unqualified, utter, complete, thorough, flat, straight, positive, certain, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, plain, clear, clear-cut 4Used euphemistically in place of an adjective regarded as obscene, profane, or abusive. 用作委婉语，替代淫秽、亵渎或辱骂的形容词 show the miserable blank-blank Englishman how to fight this war 教那个一天到晚绷着脸的英国可怜虫怎样打这场战争。 Example sentencesExamples That whole blanking thing is very ugly, isn't it? noun blaŋkblæŋk 1A space left to be filled in a document. （文件中待填写的）空白处 leave blanks to type in the appropriate names 留下空白以便打上适当的名称。 Example sentencesExamples I want to fill in the blanks, dot the i's and cross the t's. More accurate and logical profiling requires restraint: leave the usual labels and formulas in template until you have enough facts to thoroughly fill in the blanks. She picked up a new gold nib black ink pen and started filling in blanks in the contract. The UN has now called in the ‘motherland’ countries, to try to fill in the blanks on the draft plan. He left blanks for inserting names and levels of government to create an instant press release of sorts. The analysis presented here shows that filling in some blanks in the current matrix will not overturn the optimal hypothesis it supports. This is your chance to fill in the blanks on a missive already written, then simply post it off to the public figure in question. The list of employees now has a number of blanks in the salary column. Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons. Question 1 was a database question, with several blanks, and two queries to be filled in. It had colloquial English phrases and you had to fill in the blanks. Someone from marketing, sales, or [fill in the blank with a department] will always throw a wrench into the project. He trekked thousands of miles along the northern coast of North America to fill in the blanks on regional maps. I knew all the key terms and I knew what to put in the blanks, but I just couldn't think straight enough to write anything. I'd been accumulating information and photographs, but when it came time to write it I knew I'd have to uncover more to fill in the blanks. The concept is simple enough: take a 9x9 square and fill in the blanks so each number from one to nine appears in each row, column and 3x3 section only once. The teacher must have been quite surprised at the way he filled in the blanks in the questions at the end of each lesson. Well if you had a form I suppose I could fill in the blanks and get the boss to sign it. If you're only looking for certain vocabulary words in certain places, why not just offer an essay template where students fill in the blanks? Their birth certificates contained blanks in the section identifying their fathers. Synonyms space, gap, blank space, empty space 1.1 A document with blank spaces to be filled. 空白文件，空白表格 Example sentencesExamples Prescription blanks must not be stored in patient examination rooms. We answered all the questions and filled out the blanks in full. In addition to controlled storage, prescription blanks are serialized, and the dispersal of all prescription pads and storage destination is documented by pharmacy staff. With a pad of blanks and the punch, I could mark my own transfers and travel anywhere that L.A. buses went. In this country, town governments issue passports, so thieves frequently break into the town hall and steal blanks. 1.2 A domino with one or both halves blank. 空白的多米诺骨牌 2A cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or as a signal. （用作打靶训练或发信号的）空包弹 Example sentencesExamples The bullets were blanks in our desert, but the situations and attitudes of the soldiers we reported on were as real as they come. When I learned to shoot a gun, I never practiced with real bullets, or even blanks. So perhaps it was a real gun and a real head, but does a blank constitute a real bullet? Unbeknownst to our finalist, four of these bullets are blanks. In addition, officers collected nine guns designed to fire blanks, but capable of being converted to fire live ammunition. He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks. Only blanks were used for the Royal war games when she visited the armed forces at Portsmouth. The guns fire blanks but can be adapted to shoot real bullets. It was the first time I'd fired a weapon, I felt a little nervous even though the bullets were only blanks. Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me. Bullets, he didn't know whether they were blanks or not, whizzed past him, inches from his face. It was something I should have noticed, blanks looked different than the real ammo we work with. She let the cartridges of blanks drop to the ground and reloaded with live fire. She said 1,797 rounds of assorted ammunition, including blanks, and 13 other weapons, including knives, had also been handed in. In each of the shops, there are display cases full of replica weapons capable of firing plastic or metal ballbearings or blanks. By day five, soldiers receive weapon's safety instructions, carry a magazine of blanks and continually conduct weapons safety procedures. ‘The darn gun was loaded with blanks,’ she said. No one on the firing squad knows whether their gun has a bullet or a blank. This stage furnishes the ammunition for two .45 Colt sixguns, .45 caliber blanks with enough blast to pop balloons but not send bullets around haphazardly. Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest. 3An empty space or period of time, especially in terms of a lack of knowledge or understanding. （尤指对情况的了解或理解上的）空白 my mind was a total blank 我什么都不知道。 Example sentencesExamples Her mind was a total blank and she kept staring at the wall in front of her. Today is one of those ‘blogless’ days where my mind is a blank so this will be short! I've a good memory, a very good memory, but my mind is a total blank. Even though I recognised people, my mind was a total blank. Our knowledge of the singer's childhood and youth is practically a total blank. It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank. I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank. She was looking at him with big, round, hopeful eyes, her lips quivering, and his mind was a total blank. The stunning reality of the battle pushed Alex's mind into total blank. It's just a total blank, as though everyone had forgotten about that bit of the world. He said all the drinks at the event had been free and believes their beers may have been spiked because of his total blank about the evening. At this point, brain, spirit and soul were all on overload and a total blank arrived. I was so nervous I put my slides upside down on the projector, dropped my folder and had a complete mind blank half way through. So while Shakespeare's life is not a total blank, it does contain a lot of empty spaces. Synonyms void, vacuum, emptiness, vacancy 4A piece of metal or wood intended for further shaping or finishing. （金属或木头的）坯件，坯料 Example sentencesExamples People couldn't believe how easy it was pick many simple locks using little more than a key blank and a screw driver. Multidirectional core reduction techniques produced a wide variety of larger reduction flakes that formed blanks for small tools. The technique traditionally has involved filing a key blank into a set of teeth that rest against each of the pins in a pin and tumbler lock. The hydroforming process forms a heated metal blank into a desired shape by means of hydraulic pressure. They do not have grip safeties, so a blank must be welded onto the frame and then finished by hand. Worthing shaped the blank into a traditional British style and finished the wood with a hand-rubbed oil finish. Wheel blanks vary in width from 7.5 in. to 12 in. and in length from 26 in. to 40 in. 4.1 A plain metal disc from which a coin is made by stamping a design on it. （待压印图案的）硬币坯料 Example sentencesExamples The Central Bank expects to sell them to the manufacturers of coin blanks in Europe. The country's largest stainless steel making outfit, has bagged an order to supply coin blanks to the French national mint. You put the die on a coin blank and hit it with a big hammer to mould the impression into the metal. 5A dash written instead of a word or letter, especially instead of an obscenity or profanity. （用来代替淫秽或亵渎词语的）代字破折号 Example sentencesExamples But, more importantly, you'll find a blank for words that should not appear. The way we would test them is we would sing it a few times and then leave something out - Astrolabe, Quadrant and blank blank blank will find a new blank to the East. 5.1 Used euphemistically in place of a noun regarded as obscene, profane, or abusive. 用作委婉语，替代淫秽、亵渎或辱骂的形容词 verb blaŋkblæŋk [with object] 1Make (something) blank or empty. 成为空白，变得模糊不清 electronic countermeasures blanked out the radar signals 电子对抗手段消隐了雷达信号。 Example sentencesExamples Before he died, fellow captives heard the prisoner, whose name is blanked out in the document, ‘screaming and asking for assistance’. ‘He deals with bad news by blanking it out,’ she answers for him. The eyes of the 22 alleged thieves were blanked out. The next day the picture of the lorry was in a number of newspapers, and, although they blanked the register and name out, they still publicised the company. That excuse was suddenly blanked out by the image before him. Swear words were blanked out, but much more offensive racist remarks were left in. Shouting was a waste of time, so to blank it out I used to stick on the headphones. I can't remember what it was, I've blanked it out. He blanked his mind of everything and stopped thinking. I blanked out my mind for a bit just thinking and sorting things out in my head. Your address is blanked out, but your name must be included on the roll, otherwise we are unable to confirm your identity when you vote. You may notice that I've blanked out the price. In a clear breach of Netiquette, it spammed all twenty with the same reply and failed to blank the identity of the recipients. The story tells of the sun being completely blanked out and stars being seen. The next three pages of that all-important document are completely blanked out. A lot of the text in the documents is blanked out, including, intriguingly, the distribution list! When the documents were delivered, apart from a few names and addresses and incidental matters, they were completely blanked out. The people are blanked out to allow you to receive the full horrific impact of their trashy homes. Every sentence, even every heading is blanked out and will remain classified, insofar as those two agencies are concerned. Whether I've just blanked it out in my head, I just don't remember making that decision. Synonyms envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay 1.1no object Become blank or empty. 成为空白，变得模糊不清 the picture blanked out 图像变得模糊不清。 Example sentencesExamples He rose from his little nap in the middle of the street, then realized where he was, and what had happened before he blanked out. Her mind blanked out and she felt lost as if in a dream. After performing the cigar sequence, something landed on my head and I blanked out. Wait, I must have blanked out while I was typing it. Jesse had suddenly blanked out and it scared her. I closed my eyes for a second, and as I tried to breath, my mind blanked out and my hands began to shake. Even though he had the uneasy feeling that she was disappointed in him, he felt bereft when her image, too, blanked out. Her mind had momentarily blanked out when she realized the mistake she had made. I blanked out completely, too tired to think of a lie. Jennifer blanked out soon after her body took to running outside the building. Minae bowed her head, her mind blanking at his cold tone. Her mind began blanking, lulled by the soft weight of his hand stroking her cheek. In a ‘zone,’ she blanked out on us and didn't say another single thing the whole time. My mind blanked out and I was no longer aware of my surroundings, falling into another dream. He had written it on his calendar, in his planner and left a reminder on his cell phone and his mind still completely blanked out at remembering that piece of news. I think I froze and blanked out for a second, because the next thing I knew he had walked up to me, taken my hand in his, and was kissing it. A second before I blanked out, cold water connected with my forehead. He completely blanked out, lost in thought again. Ray's image blanked out and he held his hand out to me on last time. As soon as he hit the ground, everything blanked out. 1.2 Cut (a metal blank) 切割（金属坯件） the complete core disc can be blanked out in one piece 2North American informal Defeat (a sports team) without allowing them to score. 〈北美〉（体育比赛中以对手得零分的成绩）战胜（对手） Baltimore blanked Toronto in a 7–0 victory 巴尔的摩队以7比0的成绩完胜多伦多队。 Example sentencesExamples The Midget Raiders blanked the Eagles 43- last Saturday in Steinbach. A tenacious Minnesota defense helped send the Flyers to their eighth shutout loss of the season, the most since they were blanked eight times in 1969 / 1970. Landmark won games three and four in a row last Thursday as they blanked the Eagles 5- and edged Mitchell 8-7. By blanking Chicago, it was the fourth consecutive shutout, a feat that had been accomplished in the American League by only the 1903 Indians and the 1932 Yankees. Also in Division Two, FC Japan blanked Roosevelt Island International 4 -. 3British informal Deliberately ignore (someone) 〈英，非正式〉故意不理睬，故意忽视 I just blanked them and walked out 我故意不理他们，走出去了。 Example sentencesExamples Walking right into John, my heart froze with fear, but instead of looking at me with anger/realisation/love etc, he blanked me! I either saw someone who was Robyn's doppelganger today, or it was actually Robyn and she blanked me. He had it out with his friend about the way he's been blanking him. After their affair has gone sour, he finds she's blanking him when they meet; it's as if they've never known each other. Rather than blanking her, have you thought about taking her out for a meal, just you and her, and actually telling her that you think your relationship has got out of balance. It's always disconcerting when you smile at someone and they just blank you. I haven't seen him for ages but the last two times I've tried to make contact he's blanked me. I spent a lot of time trying to get clearance from the soft rock band but they completely blanked it. At least this time she said hello to me, most of the time she blanks me. I don't get the guy - I mean just yesterday he totally blanked me but now he's winking at me. Some days he looks at you and some days he blanks you. Despite phone calls and emails, our man behind this public-spirited deed was completely blanked by the software empire. His instinct was to blank his questioners, shake hands with the leader and exit swiftly. I want to develop our relationship, but sometimes I feel like blanking her calls. The actor has slammed his co-star for claiming he deliberately blanked him on the set of the boxing movie. It wasn't that he blanked you, but you just knew you weren't part of the gang. I watch him blank the room service waiter, who will presumably have to clean up the tomato sauce mess later. I sent an email last night to someone who's been blanking me for the last few days. ‘I've been blanking his phone calls,’ says Ritchie. I felt she was blanking me and never thought about the fact that there were television cameras on us. Synonyms ignore, take no notice of, take no account of, pay no attention to, pay no heed to, refuse to acknowledge Phrases be firing (or shooting) blanks informal (of a man) be infertile. 〈幽默〉（男性）无生育能力 Example sentencesExamples He's probably been firing blanks for years, but wouldn't admit it for a second - after all, a man isn't really a man if he can't hit the target. Will my princess be disappointed when she discovers I am firing blanks? draw a blank Elicit no successful response; fail. 得不到想得到的回应（或信息）；失败 the search drew a blank 搜寻失败了。 Example sentencesExamples By Saturday, the negotiators working ahead of Wednesday's summit had drawn a blank: there will be nothing beyond a statement of broad principles. As if out of habit, he went online and entered the words in the search engine, but drew a blank. Within days of his death, they went to the home of his widow and daughters to conduct an early-morning search, but drew a blank. Inquires made by the administrative officer on my behalf have drawn a blank. The journalist drew a blank when he tried to find out more from villagers. Police investigations at the time drew a blank, and no firm reason could be found for his disappearance. As their searches drew a blank, fears grew that she had been abducted, or even run away from the school party. Many searches ultimately draw a blank, but people do turn up on occasion. The inspector said today that conventional methods of identification, including DNA and fingerprinting, had drawn a blank. Detectives initially drew a blank as no one of that name was registered missing. Derivatives blankness noun ˈblaŋknəsˈblæŋknəs Out of the blankness that floated thickly through my mind, one thing bluntly shone its way through. Example sentencesExamples He had experienced that blankness before. His eyes closed as if in slow motion and a blankness overpowered him. She searched his face, looking for any indication of his recognition, but still there was nothing but blankness. The blankness of space was bombarded by a series of explosions coming from all directions. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'white, colourless'): from Old French blanc 'white', ultimately of Germanic origin. blancmange from Late Middle English: In medieval times a blancmange was a dish of white meat or fish in a cream sauce—the ‘dessert’ sense seems to have come into use in the middle of the 16th century. The word is from Old French blanc mangier and literally means ‘white food’. Other words from French blanc include blanch (Middle English), blank (Middle English), and blanket (Middle English). Originally blanket referred to undyed (hence ‘white’) woollen cloth used for clothing. A dampened blanket would sometimes be used to extinguish a fire before going to bed. This is the origin of a wet blanket, a term for someone who spoils other people's fun by refusing to join in or by showing disapproval. Rhymes ankh, bank, clank, crank, dank, drank, embank, flank, franc, frank, hank, lank, outflank, outrank, Planck, plank, point-blank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank adj.1 phr. Definition of blank in US English: blank adjectiveblæŋkblaNGk 1(of a surface or background) unrelieved by decorative or other features; bare, empty, or plain. （表面，背景）无装饰的；空白的 a blank wall 空白的墙壁。 the blank skyline Example sentencesExamples It features blank walls and a recliner placed in the middle of the room. I have turned away from him and am concentrating on the very blank, very white wall in front of me. On one side there was the blank wall of the back of a shopping centre. I found another microwave that had a completely blank front, with the buttons hidden inside the door. He was an empty vessel, a blank template waiting to be completed. The photograph facing the title page says it all - it simply shows a wall, blank but for an empty picture hook. I got myself some food and drinks and sat on the couch-bed staring at a blank plasma flat screen TV. Police fear the vandals will view clean walls as a blank canvas. See your own aura by standing about three feet in front of a mirror with a blank wall behind you. His essay offers an intriguing interpretation of a Tudor portrait featuring five enigmatically blank panels. In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background. It's a surprising journey to get from this blank surface to the finished thing, and it isn't a straight line. He would roam the streets looking for nice blank surfaces to paint the letter of the day on. I wanted to do something interesting with the top of the case, which is currently just a blank surface. The room seem pretty bare, blank walls, holding that nasty lonely chill inside. He thought as he was staring at the shockingly blank white walls. The blank background beautifully reflects the tonal differences, conjuring up the stark light of the Mediterranean and the murky tones of America. Only one structure blotted the blank landscape. This is the equivalent of a cultural vacuum, a blank canvas, an empty stage. Do you sometimes spend hours staring at a blank wall? Synonyms empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white 1.1 Not written or printed on. 未写字的，未印刷的 a blank sheet of paper 一张空白纸。 Example sentencesExamples On it he put a sheet of blank paper and a packet of crayons before he pulled over a chair. Sighing, I took out a blank sheet of scrap paper and started brainstorming. He wrote his first outlines in longhand on large blank sheets of paper. We had to run out and buy a blank book for her to record daydreams and nightdreams, and she's been at it for a week now. Slip a sheet of blank paper or an entire magazine into the baggie. First thing I did was to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and write up a ‘wish list’ of all the things I'd like to have in the campaign. Staring confused at the blank envelope I moved to my kitchen counter. I wrote my name on a blank sheet of notebook paper, and tried to push it into the shredder, but I couldn't quite line the paper up with the feed. The four-page statement was printed on blank paper. When his first son, William, was born, Darwin took an old notebook and began to record his development in its blank pages. The professor said he found an empty notebook, with blank pages which the poet had never found time to write on. She set the pencil to a blank sheet of paper and began to draw. Seira pulled out a pencil and some sheets of blank manuscript paper. His boss set him to cutting and pasting blank sheets of profile paper into strips of varying dimensions for later use in the field. The police brought him in, gave him a blank sheet to write down what he did the day before, and then released him. The agent flipped the paper over only to find that it was a blank sheet of paper. I start with a blank sheet of paper and I just write a sentence. Teddy grabbed the crayons and a sheet of blank paper and began to write and colour. He went into his room and pulled out a blank sheet of paper and pen and he began to write a reply letter. One national daily yesterday featured a blank front page, explaining below that it had been reserved for a victory picture that never came. Synonyms empty, unfilled, unmarked, unwritten on, unused, clear, free, bare, clean, plain, spotless, white 1.2 (of a document) with spaces left for a signature or details. （文件）留有空白处的 blank tax-return forms 空白纳税申报单。 Example sentencesExamples At first she assumed he was coding data, but finally caught him completing blank questionnaires. Instead, he turned and replaced the invoice with his blank warrant, quickly copying over the address. How trusted are the people who handle the blank documents, or the databases those documents are tied into? First, it will be recalled that errors made by customers when completing blank bank giro credit forms led to unacceptable delays in payments being made. He pulled out the drawer of his desk and got out a blank American passport. Young men were beaten and tortured while in police custody, then forced to sign blank depositions. She had gotten back to the blank document she had started earlier. Since last year, more than 15,000 blank passports have been stolen in France. The speaker's statement indicated that there was evidence that some members provided signed blank warrants to the travel agents. They have no names, their birth certificates are blank. When the scoresheet is blank and the incident at a premium, the search is for statistics. Student participation was voluntary - students who did not participate were advised to return a blank questionnaire. Another employee had a spreadsheet she was certain was corrupted because it came up completely blank when opened. Since 1990, there have been over 19,050 blank passports that have been stolen from Belgium. This word processor starts up in about three seconds on a decent system and takes about 5MB of memory for a blank document. Many travel documents in the existing Interpol database are blank passports stolen from consulates around the world. They also found blank visa forms for several countries. She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract. I had him just sign a blank loan document and that's all it took to drag him in. If participants did not experience anything unusual, they were instructed to simply return the blank questionnaire. 1.3 (of a tape) with nothing recorded on it. （磁带）没有录制的，空白的 blank cassettes 空白盒式磁带。 Example sentencesExamples When they took the stage a few hours later, they were armed with a tape recorder and a stack of blank cassettes. By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio. It records on more types of blank disks than the others, but its built-in TV tuner is mono, not stereo. I missed a bunch of it - I had to take a phone call, and couldn't find a blank tape for the VCR. I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre. Ensure you have a digital video camera with a fully charged battery and plenty of blank tapes. Like CDR, blank DVD-R discs are recorded in a DVD-R drive that is controlled by a host computer. In kindergarten, each student brings a blank videotape to school which is then used in succeeding years to record the interviews. It turned out that the tape was blank and had not been used to record the conversation. Before I went out of the car, I made sure that the recorder had a blank tape inside or else my project would be in jeopardy. There was also a blank tape, just in case you felt like making use of the hotel's video recording service. To do this you will need a microphone, a tape recorder or CD recorder, and blank tapes or CD's. Applying a levy on blank tapes, MiniDiscs, CD-Rs and the like, and to the hardware that writes data to them, will be resisted. My colleague rewinds the tape to find it is blank; the recorder failed. The recordings are available and there are several minutes of blank tape at the end of each side. Contestants are asked to bring along a blank tape on the night of registration so that a copy can be made of the song chosen. That was when we discovered that the video code hadn't worked and the tape was blank. He caught up with me later in the afternoon and pressed a blank tape into my hand and bashfully asked if I could make him a copy of it. No more scrambling to find a blank tape when you unexpectedly come across an interesting programme that's just starting - simply hit record. Each student will get a blank tape and video recorder. 2Showing incomprehension or no reaction. 茫然的，呆滞的 we were met by blank looks 我们看到的是茫然的表情。 Example sentencesExamples Her face was blank; its lack of expression scared him. His face is blank but his eyes are full of hatred, confusion and fear. He looked dazed and confused with a blank stare on his face. She spoke softly, her features carefully blank. He looks momentarily confused, his face going blank until it hardens. When she arranged a time for me to go into the radio station and record the interview I expected to be greeted with blank looks. He waited to see her reaction, but only got a blank stare in return, so he continued his explanation. She watched the pair intently, impeccable mastery of her emotions leaving her features completely blank. Some stared back, a blank, empty stare that chilled to the bone. She decided to go straight to the point when she noticed my blank and confused expression. Her first reaction was a blank look at the receptionist. The actual reactions run the gamut from blank stares to gently-furrowed brows. I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space. For a second his dad just stood there with no expression at all, his eyes were blank and empty. Now at that point, faces just sort of go blank, people are dumbfounded. All I could offer him was a blank stare, emerald eyes clouded with confusion and apprehension. He arranged his terror-struck features into a blank mask. She just stared at the floor with a blank look on her face as the president spoke up. The image of her empty eyes and blank face was burnt into his memory. I tried my best to give them a blank look and express confusion at the stated declaration, but it was hopeless. Synonyms expressionless, empty, vacant, deadpan, wooden, stony, impassive, inanimate, poker-faced, vacuous, glazed, fixed, lifeless, uninterested, emotionless, unresponsive, inscrutable baffled, nonplussed, mystified, stumped, at a loss, stuck, puzzled, perplexed, bewildered, bemused, ignorant, lost, muddled, uncomprehending, befuddled, fuddled, addled, at sea, all at sea, at sixes and sevens, confused 2.1 Having temporarily no knowledge or understanding. 一时懵懂的，大脑一时空白的 her mind went blank 屏幕变成一片空白。 Example sentencesExamples Sit in the lotus position on the floor and let your mind go blank. repeat these words. He looks me directly in the eye, and I want to say something but my mind is absolutely blank. He went completely blank as he saw the beauty that entered his office. I'll sit there, trying so hard to think of something to say but it isn't even a matter of willing myself to say it, my mind is blank. My mind went completely blank as the words ran through my head. My brain remained stubbornly blank and I was forced to stalk back into the house without getting in a final shot. This caught her off guard, then her mind went temporarily blank. I really should be able to think of loads more bad film titles, but I've gone completely blank. Now with a blank mind she has nothing left to type. Slight anger stirred inside my temporarily blank mind, what about me? She sighed, enjoying the absolutely blank state of her mind at the moment. While, it's neither advisable nor possible to stop thinking, try practicing keeping the mind blank or empty, even for some fleeting seconds. John, though his memory was blank, seemed to understand the world around him well enough. When the kids came along, my mind went completely blank. If you ask someone in attendance to recount these scenes you're likely to get a blank response and a claim of a lack of memory. About 5 minutes after they leave for their conference, the food will arrive. The waiter looks at you questioningly, and your mind goes blank. 2.2 Lacking incident or result. 无活动的，单调的，无结果的 those blank moments aboard airplanes 在飞机上的那些沉闷的时刻。 Example sentencesExamples Nobody had their putting stroke in the best mode, resulting in another blank day for the twos pool and another pot to carry forward to next week's outing. 3attributive Complete; absolute (used emphatically with negative force) 十足的，绝顶的 he was met with a blank refusal to discuss the issue 他提出讨论一下这个问题，但遭到断然拒绝。 Example sentencesExamples This movie aims to evoke the same mystery, but settles for a sense of blank perplexity. On the unionist side, there was a blank refusal to consider power sharing. Those advisers who urged on him an expression of contrition as a way of finding closure met with a blank refusal. I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one frustrated with his blank lack of understanding. What's interesting about the posts on the website is this blank refusal to accept the true nature of freedom of speech. I don't believe that could happen today, one of my students sighed in blank refusal of this simple chain of reasoning. You give hugely to the town and the country but when you look for a little back for yourself, you get a blank refusal. But he was isolated, and something more than a blank refusal was required. Synonyms outright, absolute, categorical, unqualified, utter, complete, thorough, flat, straight, positive, certain, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unmistakable, plain, clear, clear-cut nounblæŋkblaNGk 1A space left to be filled in a document. （文件中待填写的）空白处 leave blanks to type in the appropriate names 留下空白以便打上适当的名称。 this measure required subjects to fill in the blanks in a story Example sentencesExamples The list of employees now has a number of blanks in the salary column. Well if you had a form I suppose I could fill in the blanks and get the boss to sign it. Question 1 was a database question, with several blanks, and two queries to be filled in. He trekked thousands of miles along the northern coast of North America to fill in the blanks on regional maps. More accurate and logical profiling requires restraint: leave the usual labels and formulas in template until you have enough facts to thoroughly fill in the blanks. He left blanks for inserting names and levels of government to create an instant press release of sorts. This is your chance to fill in the blanks on a missive already written, then simply post it off to the public figure in question. It had colloquial English phrases and you had to fill in the blanks. Someone from marketing, sales, or [fill in the blank with a department] will always throw a wrench into the project. The teacher must have been quite surprised at the way he filled in the blanks in the questions at the end of each lesson. I knew all the key terms and I knew what to put in the blanks, but I just couldn't think straight enough to write anything. The analysis presented here shows that filling in some blanks in the current matrix will not overturn the optimal hypothesis it supports. She picked up a new gold nib black ink pen and started filling in blanks in the contract. If you're only looking for certain vocabulary words in certain places, why not just offer an essay template where students fill in the blanks? I'd been accumulating information and photographs, but when it came time to write it I knew I'd have to uncover more to fill in the blanks. Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons. Their birth certificates contained blanks in the section identifying their fathers. The concept is simple enough: take a 9x9 square and fill in the blanks so each number from one to nine appears in each row, column and 3x3 section only once. I want to fill in the blanks, dot the i's and cross the t's. The UN has now called in the ‘motherland’ countries, to try to fill in the blanks on the draft plan. Synonyms space, gap, blank space, empty space 1.1 A document with blank spaces to be filled. 空白文件，空白表格 Example sentencesExamples We answered all the questions and filled out the blanks in full. With a pad of blanks and the punch, I could mark my own transfers and travel anywhere that L.A. buses went. Prescription blanks must not be stored in patient examination rooms. In addition to controlled storage, prescription blanks are serialized, and the dispersal of all prescription pads and storage destination is documented by pharmacy staff. In this country, town governments issue passports, so thieves frequently break into the town hall and steal blanks. 1.2 A domino with one or both halves blank. 空白的多米诺骨牌 2A cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or as a signal. （用作打靶训练或发信号的）空包弹 Example sentencesExamples It was the first time I'd fired a weapon, I felt a little nervous even though the bullets were only blanks. The guns fire blanks but can be adapted to shoot real bullets. She let the cartridges of blanks drop to the ground and reloaded with live fire. When I learned to shoot a gun, I never practiced with real bullets, or even blanks. Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me. In each of the shops, there are display cases full of replica weapons capable of firing plastic or metal ballbearings or blanks. He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks. In addition, officers collected nine guns designed to fire blanks, but capable of being converted to fire live ammunition. ‘The darn gun was loaded with blanks,’ she said. It was something I should have noticed, blanks looked different than the real ammo we work with. By day five, soldiers receive weapon's safety instructions, carry a magazine of blanks and continually conduct weapons safety procedures. No one on the firing squad knows whether their gun has a bullet or a blank. The bullets were blanks in our desert, but the situations and attitudes of the soldiers we reported on were as real as they come. She said 1,797 rounds of assorted ammunition, including blanks, and 13 other weapons, including knives, had also been handed in. Bullets, he didn't know whether they were blanks or not, whizzed past him, inches from his face. So perhaps it was a real gun and a real head, but does a blank constitute a real bullet? Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest. Only blanks were used for the Royal war games when she visited the armed forces at Portsmouth. Unbeknownst to our finalist, four of these bullets are blanks. This stage furnishes the ammunition for two .45 Colt sixguns, .45 caliber blanks with enough blast to pop balloons but not send bullets around haphazardly. 3An empty space or period of time, especially in terms of a lack of knowledge or understanding. （尤指对情况的了解或理解上的）空白 my mind was a total blank 我什么都不知道。 Example sentencesExamples He said all the drinks at the event had been free and believes their beers may have been spiked because of his total blank about the evening. At this point, brain, spirit and soul were all on overload and a total blank arrived. Our knowledge of the singer's childhood and youth is practically a total blank. Even though I recognised people, my mind was a total blank. I was so nervous I put my slides upside down on the projector, dropped my folder and had a complete mind blank half way through. It's just a total blank, as though everyone had forgotten about that bit of the world. So while Shakespeare's life is not a total blank, it does contain a lot of empty spaces. She was looking at him with big, round, hopeful eyes, her lips quivering, and his mind was a total blank. It tells the story of a woman suffering from psychogenic amnesia who wakes up daily with her mind a total blank. The stunning reality of the battle pushed Alex's mind into total blank. I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank. Today is one of those ‘blogless’ days where my mind is a blank so this will be short! I've a good memory, a very good memory, but my mind is a total blank. Her mind was a total blank and she kept staring at the wall in front of her. Synonyms void, vacuum, emptiness, vacancy 4A roughly cut metal or wooden block intended for further shaping or finishing. （金属或木头的）坯件，坯料 Example sentencesExamples Multidirectional core reduction techniques produced a wide variety of larger reduction flakes that formed blanks for small tools. The technique traditionally has involved filing a key blank into a set of teeth that rest against each of the pins in a pin and tumbler lock. People couldn't believe how easy it was pick many simple locks using little more than a key blank and a screw driver. Worthing shaped the blank into a traditional British style and finished the wood with a hand-rubbed oil finish. Wheel blanks vary in width from 7.5 in. to 12 in. and in length from 26 in. to 40 in. The hydroforming process forms a heated metal blank into a desired shape by means of hydraulic pressure. They do not have grip safeties, so a blank must be welded onto the frame and then finished by hand. 4.1 A plain metal disk from which a coin is made by stamping a design on it. （待压印图案的）硬币坯料 Example sentencesExamples The country's largest stainless steel making outfit, has bagged an order to supply coin blanks to the French national mint. You put the die on a coin blank and hit it with a big hammer to mould the impression into the metal. The Central Bank expects to sell them to the manufacturers of coin blanks in Europe. 5A dash written instead of a word or letter, especially instead of an obscenity or profanity. （用来代替淫秽或亵渎词语的）代字破折号 Example sentencesExamples The way we would test them is we would sing it a few times and then leave something out - Astrolabe, Quadrant and blank blank blank will find a new blank to the East. But, more importantly, you'll find a blank for words that should not appear. 5.1 Used euphemistically in place of a noun regarded as obscene, profane, or abusive. 用作委婉语，替代淫秽、亵渎或辱骂的形容词 verbblæŋkblaNGk [with object] 1Cover up, obscure, or cause to appear blank or empty. 掩盖；使模糊不清；使显得空白 electronic countermeasures blanked out the radar signals 电子对抗手段消隐了雷达信号。 Example sentencesExamples I can't remember what it was, I've blanked it out. The eyes of the 22 alleged thieves were blanked out. Every sentence, even every heading is blanked out and will remain classified, insofar as those two agencies are concerned. The next day the picture of the lorry was in a number of newspapers, and, although they blanked the register and name out, they still publicised the company. He blanked his mind of everything and stopped thinking. When the documents were delivered, apart from a few names and addresses and incidental matters, they were completely blanked out. The people are blanked out to allow you to receive the full horrific impact of their trashy homes. That excuse was suddenly blanked out by the image before him. The next three pages of that all-important document are completely blanked out. The story tells of the sun being completely blanked out and stars being seen. I blanked out my mind for a bit just thinking and sorting things out in my head. A lot of the text in the documents is blanked out, including, intriguingly, the distribution list! You may notice that I've blanked out the price. Before he died, fellow captives heard the prisoner, whose name is blanked out in the document, ‘screaming and asking for assistance’. In a clear breach of Netiquette, it spammed all twenty with the same reply and failed to blank the identity of the recipients. Your address is blanked out, but your name must be included on the roll, otherwise we are unable to confirm your identity when you vote. Swear words were blanked out, but much more offensive racist remarks were left in. ‘He deals with bad news by blanking it out,’ she answers for him. Whether I've just blanked it out in my head, I just don't remember making that decision. Shouting was a waste of time, so to blank it out I used to stick on the headphones. Synonyms envelop, surround, swathe, enfold, cover, cover up, conceal, hide, secrete, camouflage, disguise, mask, screen, shield, cloak, blanket, shroud, enwrap, canopy, overlay 1.1no object Become blank or empty. 成为空白，变得模糊不清 the picture blanked out 图像变得模糊不清。 Example sentencesExamples As soon as he hit the ground, everything blanked out. In a ‘zone,’ she blanked out on us and didn't say another single thing the whole time. Jennifer blanked out soon after her body took to running outside the building. He rose from his little nap in the middle of the street, then realized where he was, and what had happened before he blanked out. Her mind blanked out and she felt lost as if in a dream. My mind blanked out and I was no longer aware of my surroundings, falling into another dream. He had written it on his calendar, in his planner and left a reminder on his cell phone and his mind still completely blanked out at remembering that piece of news. A second before I blanked out, cold water connected with my forehead. I blanked out completely, too tired to think of a lie. Minae bowed her head, her mind blanking at his cold tone. Her mind began blanking, lulled by the soft weight of his hand stroking her cheek. He completely blanked out, lost in thought again. Her mind had momentarily blanked out when she realized the mistake she had made. I think I froze and blanked out for a second, because the next thing I knew he had walked up to me, taken my hand in his, and was kissing it. After performing the cigar sequence, something landed on my head and I blanked out. Jesse had suddenly blanked out and it scared her. Even though he had the uneasy feeling that she was disappointed in him, he felt bereft when her image, too, blanked out. Ray's image blanked out and he held his hand out to me on last time. Wait, I must have blanked out while I was typing it. I closed my eyes for a second, and as I tried to breath, my mind blanked out and my hands began to shake. 1.2 Cut (a metal blank) 切割（金属坯件） the complete core disk can be blanked out in one piece 2North American informal Defeat (a sports opponent) without allowing the opposition to score. 〈北美〉（体育比赛中以对手得零分的成绩）战胜（对手） Baltimore blanked Toronto in a 7–0 victory 巴尔的摩队以7比0的成绩完胜多伦多队。 Example sentencesExamples By blanking Chicago, it was the fourth consecutive shutout, a feat that had been accomplished in the American League by only the 1903 Indians and the 1932 Yankees. A tenacious Minnesota defense helped send the Flyers to their eighth shutout loss of the season, the most since they were blanked eight times in 1969 / 1970. Also in Division Two, FC Japan blanked Roosevelt Island International 4 -. The Midget Raiders blanked the Eagles 43- last Saturday in Steinbach. Landmark won games three and four in a row last Thursday as they blanked the Eagles 5- and edged Mitchell 8-7. Phrases be firing (or shooting) blanks informal (of a man) be infertile. 〈幽默〉（男性）无生育能力 Example sentencesExamples Will my princess be disappointed when she discovers I am firing blanks? He's probably been firing blanks for years, but wouldn't admit it for a second - after all, a man isn't really a man if he can't hit the target. draw a blank Elicit no successful response; fail. 得不到想得到的回应（或信息）；失败 the search drew a blank 搜寻失败了。 Example sentencesExamples By Saturday, the negotiators working ahead of Wednesday's summit had drawn a blank: there will be nothing beyond a statement of broad principles. Many searches ultimately draw a blank, but people do turn up on occasion. The journalist drew a blank when he tried to find out more from villagers. Within days of his death, they went to the home of his widow and daughters to conduct an early-morning search, but drew a blank. Detectives initially drew a blank as no one of that name was registered missing. As their searches drew a blank, fears grew that she had been abducted, or even run away from the school party. Police investigations at the time drew a blank, and no firm reason could be found for his disappearance. Inquires made by the administrative officer on my behalf have drawn a blank. As if out of habit, he went online and entered the words in the search engine, but drew a blank. The inspector said today that conventional methods of identification, including DNA and fingerprinting, had drawn a blank. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘white, colorless’): from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin. adj.1 phr.
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