What's the difference between blank and dummy?

Blank


Definition:

  • (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.
  • (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
  • (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited.
  • (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
  • (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
  • (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
  • (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
  • (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
  • (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
  • (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
  • (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
  • (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
  • (n.) Aim; shot; range.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
  • (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
  • (v. t.) To make void; to annul.
  • (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, the most frequent haplotype of HLA-DR2 in normal Japanese, A24-C blank-Bw52-C4A*2 B*Q0-BF *S-C2*C-DR2-DQw1, had a decreased frequency to one-third of the normal controls.
  • (2) In case of extractions from blank plasma samples interfering peaks are not observed.
  • (3) Some of the patients with a blank audiogram are better off with exploratory tympanotomy and stapedotomy.
  • (4) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
  • (5) Its better sensitivity allowed a lower reagent consumption and a larger sample dilution (contrary to the conventional immunonephelometry, sample pretreatment and sample blank measurement were unnecessary).
  • (6) This blank effect owes its regressive nature to the consumption of the active reagent ingredient by the protein reactive species, variably and sometimes, with certain reactants, nonlinearly in the presence of increasing protein concentrations.
  • (7) Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will follow scrambled faces or blank stimuli.
  • (8) The signals were digitized and subjected to three methods of heart sound cancellation: 75-Hz high-pass filtering (75 HF), ECG-triggered blanking (BL) and adaptive filtering (AF).
  • (9) We aggressively push new uranium deals to countries like India , whose nuclear industry has been called unsafe by its own auditor general , and which point blank refuses to sign the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty .
  • (10) A column chromatographic purification of milk prior to radioimmunoassay decreased the blank and improved sensitivity.
  • (11) Would their parents point-blank refuse to take home yet another Barbie, or would they really be able to stand back and let free choice ensue?
  • (12) Performance was at chance on blank trials, and cats with complete cord transection failed to discriminate.
  • (13) Significant increases were noted in the frequencies of HLA-A 26, B 39 and DR blank antigens.
  • (14) Marked reduction of exogenous cyt c was observed only in sample S: the small reduction of cyt c by sample R was independent of the light wavelength and was equal to the blank level.
  • (15) It would also authorise the use of US forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.” The White House insists the AUMF does not confer authority for “long-term, large-scale ground combat operations”, but the language has already raised concerns among Democrats that it gives the White House another “blank cheque” for open-ended war wherever it chooses.
  • (16) Each matrix was prepared at 3 sulfite levels--the regulatory level, half the regulatory level, twice the regulatory level--and as a blank.
  • (17) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
  • (18) Asked point blank if Mueller should recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump said: “Well, he’s very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.
  • (19) Black cases had significantly higher gene frequencies than black controls for Bw65, Cw2, and DRw14, while white cases had higher gene frequencies than white controls for A3 and Cw2 and blanks at the DR and DQ loci.
  • (20) Hydrogen peroxide was formed when cysteine was exposed to oxygen in the dilution blank solution, and the reaction was inhibited by metal ion-chelating agents.

Dummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
  • (a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
  • (n.) One who is dumb.
  • (n.) A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
  • (n.) An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
  • (n.) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
  • (n.) A thick-witted person; a dolt.
  • (n.) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
  • (n.) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
  • (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a 20-week double-blind double-dummy crossover trial active treatment was given as two types of tablets providing daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 9000 IU beta carotene, 0.54 g vitamin C, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine.
  • (2) The usefulness of micronutrient antioxidant therapy for recurrent (non-gallstone) pancreatitis has recently been endorsed by a 20-week double-blind double-dummy cross-over trial in 20 patients.
  • (3) In spite of this fact, it has not been possible in this study to establish a significant correlation between previous dummy-sucking and the development of cross-bite in the permanent dentition.
  • (4) Second, in patients with combined hypertension and angina pectoris, fixed doses of labetalol (200 mg twice daily) gave the same blood pressure values, effort tolerance, and nitrate usage as did atenolol 100 mg once daily in a double-blind, double-dummy, crossover study.
  • (5) Daily Mail & General Trust could launch the title as soon as next weekend, with a dummy edition planned for this Sunday.
  • (6) The method consists in refining by least-squares the positions and thermal parameters of a set of dummy atoms placed in the initial low resolution electron density map, so as to minimize the discrepancy between the calculated scattering intensities and the scattering intensities observed in the high resolution data set.
  • (7) Inactive dummies with the same dimensions as the radioactive sources are loaded into the capsules before obtaining the orthogonal radiographs.
  • (8) No one in the United States has absolute power or an absolute right to do anything that violates the constitution This is American law for dummies, but Trump gives no indication of knowing its basic tenets.
  • (9) In a double-blind, double-dummy study, the efficacy of topical 5% EMLA cream was compared with that of lignocaine infiltration in alleviating the pain of arterial cannulation.
  • (10) Also claimed for buying a copy of Windows XP for Dummies.
  • (11) In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, double-dummy, randomized, parallel-group preliminary study, the antihypertensive efficacy and tolerability of the ACE inhibitor enalapril (20 mg day-1) and hydrochlorothiazide (50 mg day-1) were evaluated and compared for 4 weeks in 20 African patients with essential hypertension.
  • (12) The study was double-blind, with a double-dummy technique.
  • (13) The dummy pumps exerted no apparent behavioral or endocrine effects, whereas tonic immobility was significantly prolonged and circulating corticosterone concentrations significantly elevated at 4 and 11 days after implantation of the corticosterone minipumps.
  • (14) Last year’s exercises fuelled an unusually sharp and protracted surge in military tensions, with Pyongyang threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and nuclear-capable US stealth bombers making dummy runs over the Korean peninsula.
  • (15) A double-blind, double-dummy, crossover study compared oral controlled-release morphine sulfate (MS Contin tablets [MSC], Purdue Frederick, Norwalk, CT) every 12 hours, and immediate-release morphine sulfate (IRMS) tablets, every 4 hours, in 14 evaluable patients with chronic cancer pain.
  • (16) A randomised, double blind, double dummy, cross over study was then carried out in 30 children to compare the effects of a 20 micrograms dose given through a nasal pipette, a 200 micrograms tablet, and a placebo.
  • (17) Campbell celebrated his second Premier League goal by sucking on a dummy hidden in his shorts, although he might have considered offering it to Özil, whose drive and execution made the goal at a moment when Arsenal were flat.
  • (18) In this paper, head baffle and head shadow effects were measured at a front-oriented and at a back-oriented microphone in a hearing aid casing when worn by human subjects and when placed on a dummy head.
  • (19) Double-blind, double-dummy, randomised, controlled, parallel group trial.
  • (20) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.