blankly

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blank

(blăngk)

adj. blank·er, blank·est

a. Devoid of writing, images, or marks: a blank wall; a blank screen.

b. Containing no information; unrecorded or erased: a blank tape; a blank diskette. See Synonyms at empty.

c. Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in: a blank questionnaire.

2. Not having received final processing; unfinished: a blank key.

a. Devoid of thought or impression: a blank mind.

b. Showing no expression, interest, or understanding; expressionless: a blank stare.

4. Devoid of activity or distinctive character; empty: tried to fill the blank hours of the day.

5. Absolute; complete: a blank refusal.

a. An empty space or place, especially an empty space on a document to be filled in.

b. A document with one or more such spaces.

a. Something without information or thought: When I read that question on the test, my mind was a blank.

b. Something showing no expression or understanding: When he told his mother what happened, her face was a blank.

3. A manufactured article of a standard shape or form that is ready for final processing, as by stamping or cutting: a key blank.

4. A blank cartridge.

5. Something worthless, such as a losing lottery ticket.

6. A mark, usually a dash (—), indicating the omission of a word or of a letter or letters.

7. The white circle in the center of a target; a bull's-eye.

8. Games An unmarked piece or portion of a piece, as a domino tile, whose value may be determined by the holder.

v. blanked, blank·ing, blanks

v.tr.

1. To remove, as from view; obliterate: "At times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight" (Richard Wright).

2. To block access to: blank off a subway tunnel.

3. Sports To prevent (an opponent) from scoring.

4. To punch or stamp from flat stock, especially with a die.

v.intr.

1. To become abstracted. Often used with out: My mind blanked out for a few seconds.

2. To fail to find or remember something: I blanked when asked the name of our mayor.

3. To fade away: The music gradually blanked out.

[Middle English, white, having spaces to be filled in, from Old French blanc, white, of Germanic origin; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

blank′ly adv.

blank′ness n.

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Adv.

blankly - without expression; in a blank manner; "she stared at him blankly"

Translations

بِدون تَعْبير، بانْشِداه

bez výrazunepřítomněneurčitě

ausdruckslos

üresen

tómlega, meî svipleysi

senza espressione

tomt uttrykksløst

boş boşifadesiz bir şekilde

茫然地

blankly

[ˈblæŋklɪ] ADV he looked at me blankly → me miró sin comprender

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

blankly

[ˈblæŋkli] adv

(= without expression) → d'un air absent

(= without understanding) → d'un air ébahi

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

blankly

adv (= expressionlessly) → ausdruckslos; (= uncomprehendingly) → verständnislos; she just looked at me blankly → sie sah mich nur groß an (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

blankly

[ˈblæŋklɪ] adv (say) → senza espressione; (stare) → con aria assente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

blank

(blӕŋk) adjective

1. (of paper) without writing or marks. a blank sheet of paper.

2. expressionless. a blank look.

3. (of a wall) having no door, window etc.

noun

1. (in forms etc) a space left to be filled (with a signature etc). Fill in all the blanks!

2. a blank cartridge. The soldier fired a blank.

ˈblankly adverb

with a blank expression. He looked at me blankly.

ˈblankness noun

blank cartridge

a cartridge without a bullet.

blank cheque

a signed cheque on which the sum to be paid has not been entered.

go blank

to become empty. My mind went blank when the police questioned me.

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If I told my schoolmates that Lena Lingard's grandfather was a clergyman, and much respected in Norway, they looked at me blankly. What did it matter?

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I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea.

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His face was a fair weakness, his chin retreated, and his hair lay in crisp, almost flaxen curls on his low forehead; his eyes were rather large, pale blue, and blankly staring.

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He gazed blankly about the kitchen, which looked cold and squalid in the rainy winter twilight.

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"For pity's sake!" said Marilla blankly. "You don't mean to tell me, Gilbert, that it's all over.

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Her great dark eyes wander blankly over the fields like the eyes of one who is desolate, homeless, unloved, not the promised bride of a brave tender man.

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Archer had seated himself near the window and was gazing out blankly at the deserted thoroughfare.

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She sank down on to the earth clasping her knees together, and looking blankly in front of her.

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They gazed blankly at him, their sticks over their backs, and on each stick a bundle.

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(and ever afterward) he would stare blankly, as if wondering what the man meant.

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He did it languidly, and, when he had finished, sat on the edge of the bed staring blankly before him.

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The shoulders lay upon a low mound, and the head was turned back at an angle otherwise impossible, the expanded eyes staring blankly backward in a direction opposite to that of the feet.

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