blank

Definition

  • noun: an empty space on a document where you put information
  • noun: the bull's-eye of a target
  • verb: to keep (the opposing team) from scoring
  • verb: to stop access to
  • adjective: without any writing, marks, or pictures
  • adjective: appearing or causing to appear dazed, confounded, or nonplussed
  • sometimes used figuratively
  • synonyms: colorless, empty, void

Examples

  • The director had a lot of creative freedom on this project; the film's backers essentially 'handed him a blank check'. [=let him direct the film exactly the way he wanted to]

  • At the end of the movie, the narrator goes back and 'fills in' (all) 'the blanks'. [=the narrator provides missing information about the movie's plot]

  • He says that the first hour after the accident is a complete 'blank'. [=he cannot remember anything that happened for an hour after the accident]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) serial numbers on the rifles. They were supposed to be in our evidence room. Not out on the street. The intake papers were blank, no signatures. What have you got? Nothing. How do you think that happened? I tell you Murphy this is a mistake. (..)
    2014 RoboCop