Noun

(en noun)

A distance in space.

* Milton

'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval .

A period of time.

the interval between contractions during childbirth

(music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).

(mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.

(chiefly, British) An intermission.

(sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play

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(cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

Noun

(en noun)

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

I cannot write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.

* Hallam

From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.

* George Eliot

I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank .

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

The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank .

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

* Dryden

In Fortune's lottery lies / A heap of blanks , like this, for one small prize.

(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.

(Nares)

(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

Let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye.

Aim; shot; range.

* Shakespeare

I have stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech.

(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.