Rug vs Blank - What's the difference?
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A partial covering for a floor.
(UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
* 1855 , , A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book ,
* 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia ,
* 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia , Volume 22,
* 1997 , Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes ,
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
* Holinshed
A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
(slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
(Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
(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.
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English
Noun
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- They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
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- Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug', and, in winter time, not less than one additional ' rug .
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- My own son had a bunny rug' of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny ' rug to suck his finger with.?
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- He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
- They spin the choicest rug' in Ireland. A friend of mine repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford ' rugs .
Usage notes
* (partial floor covering) The terms rug'' and carpet are not precise synonyms: a ''rug'' covers part of the floor; a ''carpet'' covers most or a large area of the floor; a ''fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.Synonyms
* (small carpet) carpet, mat * (wig) toupee, wigDerived terms
* area rug * cut a rug * scatter rug * snug as a bug in a rugVerb
(rugg)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Derived terms
* rug up (Webster 1913)External links
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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 .