(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.
Sketchbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of sketches or for sketches.
Example Sentences:
(1) He attended sessions for six years without once speaking, simply keeping a sketchbook which he later published.
(2) Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” It is particularly untimely for the museum to have introduced the diktat when it is about to unveil an exhibition devoted to the act of copying at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
(3) More information at visitdevon.co.uk • Kari Herbert is co-author of Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery and Adventure (Thames & Hudson, £29.95).
(4) Autodesk SketchBook What we say: Apple’s iPad has tended to hog the limelight when it comes to artists and illustrators working on tablets, but Android is building up its own library of drawing and painting apps too.
(5) Although the journey to North Africa was Rauschenberg's idea, it profoundly affected Twombly: he brought back a sketchbook filled with motifs and studies of materials, and subsequently produced expressive abstract canvases whose titles were taken from the Moroccan towns Tiznit and Quarzazat.
(6) Painterly and Sketchbook have both been recommended by the Guardian's app reviewers , but there are many, many more.
(7) Sketchbook Ink Autodesk's SketchBook Ink drawing app was as warmly received on Android tablets as it had been on iPad.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SketchBook Ink for Android.
(9) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
(10) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
(11) A visit to the sprawling Victorian repository isn’t complete without clattering into a skinny-jeaned art student poring over their sketchbook, trying to render the muscular sinews of the Borghese Gladiator or capture the intricacies of a baroque fireplace.
(12) Some of the drawing and annotation functions within Samsung's apps such as S Note, SketchBook and Scrapbook could be useful for someone who can draw well, but they're lost on me.
(13) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).
(14) Allowing students to stand in front of exhibits for hours on end, as they lovingly craft an image of that 1950s Playtex rubber girdle in their sketchbooks, just doesn’t allow the conveyor belt of visitors to flow fast enough.
(15) I remember my father drawing pictures of the prison in his sketchbook in order to do an etching of the fortifications, and being quickly pounced on by gun-toting guards.
(16) It was on a picture of my curvy sketchbook where I’d drawn a pic of a swimsuit I was going to make and hashtagged it “#beachbodyready,” she told the Guardian.
(17) An artistic triumph spanning three decades, the exhibition features more than 60 works by the Turner prize winner, from the ceramics that made him famous to his vast, imposing tapestries and impishly decorated sketchbooks.
(18) So I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it."
(19) Renoir’s The Skiff I remember diligently trying to copy down in my school sketchbook, and I’m still trying to work out how Henry Moore painted those stormy waves .