{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "blæŋk" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) White or pale; without colour.\n1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 656–657:To the blanc Moone / Her office they preſcrib'd," }, { "mean": "Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in\nblank paper\na blank check\na blank ballot\na blank CD\n2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎:Referee Michael Oliver failed to detect a foul in a crowded box and the Canaries escaped down the tunnel with the scoreline still blank." }, { "mean": "(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.\na blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness" }, { "mean": "Absolute; downright; sheer.\nThere was a look of blank terror on his face.\na blank refusal to cooperate" }, { "mean": "Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.\nFailing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare." }, { "mean": "Utterly confounded or discomfited.\n1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 888–890:Adam Aſtonied ſtood and Blank," }, { "mean": "Empty; void; without result; fruitless.\na blank day" }, { "mean": "Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.\nThe shock left his memory blank." }, { "mean": "(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.\nThe recruits were issued with blank rounds for a training exercise." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .\n1523, Jean Froissart, transl. by John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce etc.:Whosoeuer brought a fagot before the kynges tent, he shulde haue a blanke of Fraunce." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A nonplus ." }, { "mean": "The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .\n1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice‎:Des. And stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech! (Act III, scene 11)\n1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear‎:Kent. See better, Lear, and let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye. (Act I, scene 2)" }, { "mean": "A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated .\n1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Thomas Creech, transl., “ The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. , London: Printed for Jacob Tonson , →OCLC, page 257: and in Fortune's Lottery lies / A heap of Blanks, like this, for one ſmall Prize." }, { "mean": "An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .", "submean": [ "A space to be filled in on a form or template.\nWrite your answers in the blanks.", "Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee ." ] }, { "mean": "(now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .\n1859, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England‎, volume 1: and the freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.", "submean": [ "An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .", "An unprinted leaf of a book ." ] }, { "mean": "(literature) Blank verse ." }, { "mean": "(mechanics, engineering) A piece of metal (such as a coin, screw, nuts), cut and shaped to the required size of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .", "submean": [ "Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required .", "(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus ." ] }, { "mean": "(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void .\nc. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 263, column 1:Du. And what's her hiſtory?Vio. A blanke my Lord:" }, { "mean": "The 1 / 230400 of a grain ." }, { "mean": "An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory .\n1736, Jonathan Swift, Letters‎:My head is so ill that I cannot write a paper full as I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.\n1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages‎:From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.\n1863, George Eliot, Romola‎:“I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank. ”" }, { "mean": "A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word" }, { "mean": "The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard." }, { "mean": "(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.\nthe double blank\nthe six blank" }, { "mean": "(firearms) Short for blank cartridge. .\nIt was an unloaded gun that fired only blanks." }, { "mean": "(figurative, in the expression ‘shooting blanks’, sports) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing .", "submean": [ "(chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.", "(slang) Infertile semen." ] } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To make void; to erase.\nI blanked out my previous entry." }, { "mean": "(transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.\nShe blanked me for no reason." }, { "mean": "(transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.\nAt high angles of attack, the shuttle's rudder is blanked by the fuselage and wings, forcing it to use its RCS thrusters for yaw control." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.\nThe team was blanked.\nEngland blanks Wales to advance to the final." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become blank.\n2007 February 14, NASA, “4.5.2 Two-Engine-Out Contingency Software Termination”, in Contingency Aborts 21007/31007‎, archived from the original on 8 March 2022, page 45:In OPS 6, the 2 EO color field does blank at SSME fine count. Once in fine count in route to an RTLS MECO, the energy state is such that one engine can carry the orbiter though powered pitch-down to a healthy MECO condition with standard RTLS guidance." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.\nI'm blanking on her name right now." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb blank\nblank canvas\nblank check\nblank end\nblank out\nblank page\nblank sheet\nblank slate\nblank verse\nblank-cartridge\nblanken\nblankish\nblankly\nblankness\nBlankshire\nBlanktown\nBlankville\ndraw a blank\ndraw blank\ndraw blanks\nfill in the blank\nin blank\nlens blank\npoint blank\npoint-blank\nproxy in blank" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }