(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.
(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.
Erase
Definition:
(v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
(v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5) and erased from the original Kauffmann-White-Schema and the Arizona Antigenic Schema to avoid a wrong diagnosis.
(2) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(3) In her study, Mandel explains how the media’s “narrative of polarisation” erases multiple and complex interactions, reducing everything to a hostility that is framed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
(4) Eating at the meal site erased significant differences in dietary intake of nutrients consumed at home related to sex, education, and occupation.
(5) I sometimes think about erasing them, but that would be like pretending it didn't happen.
(6) Conservatives were unhappy the measure doesn’t erase enough of Obama’s law while at the other end of the party’s spectrum, moderates were upset the bill would strip millions of health coverage.
(7) Although the conservative-dominated coalition has made headway in purging the state sector since it assumed power in June 2012, sceptical attitudes have been hard to erase.
(8) "It's not like [2006 solo album] The Eraser at all," he said.
(9) The government is now considering whether to ask the employees, most of whom work in waste disposal and public transport, to have their tattoos erased, or even to find another job.
(10) That it may conceal, or even completely erase, major abnormalities of ventricular repolarization induced by certain drugs is not so well known.
(11) Feinstein’s speech this morning seems unlikely to erase that perception.
(12) The UN report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said on Thursday that the Islamist militants, who include foreign fighters, had been systematically capturing Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014 , seeking to “erase their identity”.
(13) Nonetheless, the project may have helped to erase the stereotype that all teenage fathers neglect their parental responsibilities.
(14) The second echo type consisted of one of the animal's echolocation clicks, previously measured, digitized and stored in an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM).
(15) Any idea that filming may be glamorous has been erased from my daughter's head.
(16) Child survival gains in the last three decades in the developed world could be quickly erased at low levels of maternal HIV infection, but gains would not be completely offset in the developing world until more than 40% of mothers became infected with HIV.
(17) The police are reluctant to pursue the case and, according to the Express Tribune, phone records for the last 18 days of Shahzad's life have been mysteriously erased.
(18) For her, the few memories of that night but the many of its extended aftermath cannot be erased.
(19) The demonstrations' bloody ending has largely erased memories of the carnival of protest that preceded it: an astonishing uprising which lasted six weeks and drew in millions of people from around the country, threatening an end to communist rule.
(20) Erase even more, you cowardly regime,” Abo Bakr wrote on a wall in a message to the whitewashers.