Etymology

Adjective

1. Without color; lacking characteristics which give variety.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
3. Without expression.

   When asked, his answer was a blank stare. When asked again his stare was even more blank.

Noun

1. A bullet that doesn't harm; a cartridge inserted into a gun that fires no projectile.
2. A void space on a paper.
3. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
4. A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.
5. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
6. A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
7. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

Verb

1. To make void; to erase.

   I blanked out my previous entry.

2. To ignore.

   She blanked me for no reason.

3. To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.

   The team was blanked.

Adjective

1. bright, shining, glossy
2. empty
3. blank
4. broke (be without money)

Adjective

1. White, Caucasian.

Adjective

1. pure, sheer

   Blanke Wut packte ihn. — Sheer anger seized him.