BLANK

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blank I. adjectiv

1. necompletat, nescris, gol, curat, cu spaţii libere / goale; viran, neîncărcat, deşert;

(fig.) to give smb. blank cheque a da cuiva (o) poliţă în alb, pecete în alb, libertate de acţiune, a-i da frâu liber.

2. lipsit de conţinut, gol, sec;

his memory is blank on the subject nu-şi aminteşte nimic despre aceasta;

blank look privire goală / inexpresivă.

3. îngândurat, preocupat; stingherit, jenat;

to look blank a fi îngândurat, preocupat.

4. deplin, complet, total, absolut;

blank silence tăcere desăvârşită;

blank idiot mare idiot;

blank despair deznădejde totală;

blank stupidity prostie crasă;

(eufemistic) that's his blank dog again! iar a venit afurisitul ăla de câine al lui!

5. B. (amer.) N., H, X etc.;

the B. Squadron detaşamentul H.

blank II. substantiv

1. loc liber, spaţiu gol.

2. liniuţă (în locul cuvântului omis).

3. (amer.) formular, blanchetă.

4. bilet de loterie necâştigător;

to draw (a) blank a) a trage / a scoate un bilet necâştigător (la loterie); b) (fig.) a suferi un eşec, a da greş.

5. ţintă (şi fig.); ţel, scop.

6. spărtură, gol.

7. gol, goliciune (sufletească); tabula rasa;

my mind is a complete blank nu-mi amintesc absolut nimic.

8. (tehn.) semifabricat; piesă brută; ţaglă; bloc, lingou.

9. (silv.) gol de pădure.

10. (text.) (despre tricot etc.) brut, nefinisat.

blank III. verb tr. (amer.)

1. a pustii, a face praf; a zdrobi, a repurta o victorie zdrobitoare asupra (cuiva); a usca de bani (la cărţi).

2. (sport) a obliga pe adversar la un scor alb (la baseball);

◊ blank him! să-l ia naiba!

blanked! la naiba!

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There was something about his manner so suspicious that I asked him point blank if he had been asleep.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Then all was blank, until he woke to find kindly blue English eyes peering down upon him and to hear the blessed sound of his country's speech.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Edmund found himself obliged to speak and fill up the blanks in his mother's story.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

What he suddenly saw on this blank paper, it was impossible for me to tell; but something had caught his eye.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was little else in the volume but a few bearings of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end and a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish moneys to a common value.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a blank sheet.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and by Mr. Elton, a young man living alone without liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse's drawing-room, and the smiles of his lovely daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But, sometimes, when I took her up, and felt that she was lighter in my arms, a dead blank feeling came upon me, as if I were approaching to some frozen region yet unseen, that numbed my life.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Tearing off the blank side of one of her newly copied pages, Jo drew the table before her mother, well knowing that money for the long, sad journey must be borrowed, and feeling as if she could do anything to add a little to the sum for her father.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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