Plank vs Blank - What's the difference?
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A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
(British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
That which supports or upholds.
* Southey
To cover something with planking.
* Dryden
To bake (fish) on a piece of cedar lumber.
* 1998 , Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin (page 147)
(colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
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(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
* Milton
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
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(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
Absolute; downright; unmixed; sheer.
Without expression.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
* Milton
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. (rfex)
A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
An empty space; a void, as on a paper, or in one's memory.
* Jonathan Swift
* Hallam
* George Eliot
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.
* Palfrey
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
* Dryden
(archaic) 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.
(engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
(dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
* Shakespeare
Aim; shot; range.
* Shakespeare
(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.
To make void; to erase.
(slang) To ignore.
To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
To become blank.
In transitive terms the difference between plank and blank
is that plank is to harden, as hat bodies, by felting while blank is to prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.In intransitive terms the difference between plank and blank
is that plank is to pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place while blank is to become blank.As an adjective blank is
white or pale; without colour.plank
English
Noun
(en noun)- His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* plank spankerVerb
(en verb)- to plank a floor or a ship
- Planked with pine.
- Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- to plank money in a wager
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- The woman, known as Claudia, fell from a 2m wall after earlier demonstrating the wrong way to plank' on a small stool while holding a bottle of wine. A friend said some guests had not heard of ' planking and Claudia was demonstrating how ridiculous it was.
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- Perth man Simon Carville became an internet sensation after he was photographed planking naked in the arms of famous Perth statue the Eliza.
blank
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- To the blank moon / Her office they prescribed.
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- a blank''' desert; a '''blank''' wall; '''blank unconsciousness
- blank terror
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
- Adam astonied stood, and blank .
- a blank day
Descendants
Noun
(en noun)- I cannot write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
- From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
- I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank .
- The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank .
- In Fortune's lottery lies / A heap of blanks , like this, for one small prize.
- (Nares)
- Let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye.
- I have stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech.
Verb
(en verb)- I blanked out my previous entry.
- She blanked me for no reason.
- The team was blanked .