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Besides following Wyatt in making the sonnet known to English readers, Surrey was the first to write in blank verse, that is in long ten-syllabled lines which do not rime. Show Outside his World, or Line, all was a blank to him; nay, not even a blank, for a blank implies Space; say, rather, all was non-existent. RETURNING to the cottage parlor, I took a chair by the window and opened my pocket-book at a blank page. * A blank: an old French coin; six blanks were worth two sous and a half; targe, an ancient coin of Burgundy, a farthing. In its blank stare was neither love, nor pity, nor intelligence--nothing to which to address an appeal for mercy. But the trouble was the blank incongruity of this serenity and the swift death flying yonder, not two miles away. Midnight comes, and with it the same blank. The carriages in the streets are few, and other late sounds in that neighbourhood there are none, unless a man so very nomadically drunk as to stray into the frigid zone goes brawling and bellowing along the pavement. Is the philosophy which denies this and asserts that we are born with dispositions like blank sheets of paper a philosophy which has failed to remark that we are not born with blank faces -- a philosophy which has never compared together two infants of a few days old, and has never observed that those infants are not born with blank tempers for mothers and nurses to fill up at will? There was another blank silence before her father rejoined: But we've got our brave Captain to thank:(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best-- A perfect and absolute blank!" They live on nothing, for they have nothing to live on." The other idea that had come into my head was connected with a high blank wall which appeared to confine an expanse of ground on one side of the house. 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] 2 [singular] : a period of time that you cannot remember anything about
◊ If your mind is/draws a blank or if you draw a blank, you are unable to remember or think of something. PresentI, you, we, theyblankhe, she, itblanks > View More PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyblankedPresent perfectI, you, we, theyhave blankedhe, she, ithas blankedPast perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad blankedFutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill blankFuture perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have blanked > View Lessa printed form containing such empty spaces something characterized by incomprehension or mental confusionmy mind went a complete blank a mark, often a dash, in place of a word, esp a taboo word a plate or plug used to seal an aperture a piece of material prepared for stamping, punching, forging, etc archery the white spot in the centre of a target draw a blank
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What is the dictionary answer?answer. / (ˈɑːnsə) / noun. a reply, either spoken or written, as to a question, request, letter, or article. a reaction or response in the form of an actiondrunkenness was his answer to disappointment.
What is something that is blank?Something that's blank is empty or undecorated. A blank canvas hasn't been drawn or painted on yet — it's clean and unmarked. A blank computer screen has no information on it, and a blank look on someone's face is completely free of any expression, revealing nothing.
What information can you find in a dictionary besides definition?Some entries contain additional information, for example about a word's origin (in a 'Word Story'), grammar and usage, collocations, related vocabulary and metaphorical meanings.
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