Look up: blank

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   blank
   A piece of metal (usually round) being prepared for coinage before the rims have been raised via the upsetting mill.
   Found on http://www.coin-gallery.com/cgglossary.h
   
   
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   blank
   See planchet.
   Found on http://www.usrarecoin.com/wv04.html
   
   
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   Blank
   The blank is the form the piece of wood takes when it has been prepared for turning. Typically this will be a round disc for a bowl or a similar face turning, or a relatively slender 'square' sectioned piece for turning between centres.
   Found on http://www.turningtools.co.uk/glossary/g
   
   
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   Blank
   A leaf or sheet without any printing.
   Found on http://www.artbook.co.uk/glossary/
   
   
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   blank
   [adj] - not charged with a bullet 2. [adj] - of a surface 3. [adj] - void of expression 4. [n] - a substitute for a taboo word 5. [n] - a piece of material ready to be made into something 6. [n] - a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet 7. [v] - keep the opposing team from winning, in baseball
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
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   Blank
   A plain glass object, usually hand-blown, intended for cutting, engraving, enamelling or gilding by a refiner. May also be cased
   Found on http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20not
   
   
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   Blank
   Uncut vessel before it is decorated
   Found on http://www.glamorganantiques.co.uk/gloss
   
   
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   Blank
   a fishing rod (eg greys, zziplex, conoflex or centuary) with no eyes attached. Or a north east coast fishing session without catching a fish.
   Found on http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/rock-f
   
   
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   Blank
   A blank page within a publication - no element whatsoever appears on a blank.
   Found on http://www.tso.co.uk/solutions/publishin
   
   
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    blank
    any piece of metal (e.g. a semi-manufacture) which is ready to be turned into a finished product by a process either of plastic deformation or of stock removal; e.g. the blank of a gear as prepared for the tooth-cutting process, or a razor blade before it has been given an edge Category: Iron and steel industries • a regimented place of storage where data may be stored, e.g. ,a locatio...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
    
    
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    blank
    1 A prepared piece of metal ready for striking into a coin, also known as a flan, or, particuarly in the USA, as a planchet. 2 Undecorated glass or ceramic item (also called in-the-white in ceramics) that is passed to an outside decorator for painting or printing.
    Found on http://www.antique-crafts.co.uk/glossary
    
    
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    Blank
    A condition of 'no information' in a data recording medium or storage location, which can be represented by all spaces or all zeros, depending on the medium.
    Found on http://www.revealcable.co.uk/Help/g/Glos
    
    
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    Blank
    Blank adjective [ Middle English blank , blonc , blaunc , blaunche , from French blanc , fem. blanche , from Old High German blanch shining, bright, white, German blank ; akin to English blink , confer also Anglo-Saxon blanc white. ...98. See Blink , and confer 1st Blanch .] 1. Of a white or pale color ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/62
    
    
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    Blank
    Blank noun 1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. « I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you. Swift. » « From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Halla ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/62
    
    
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    Blank
    Blank transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blanked ; present participle & verbal noun Blanking .] [ Confer 3d Blanch .] 1. To make void; to annul. [ Obsolete] Spenser. 2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [ Obsolete] « Each opposite that blanks< ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/62
    
    
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    blank
    1. Of a white or pale colour; without colour. 'To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.' (Milton) ... 2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. ... 3. Utterly confounded or discomfited. 'Adam ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
    
    
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    blank
    clean adjective (of a surface) not written or printed on; `blank pages`; `fill in the blank spaces`; `a clean page`; `wide white margins`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    blank
    adjective not charged with a bullet; `a blank cartridge`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    blank
    dummy 1 blank shell noun a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    blank
    verb keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    blank
    adjective void of expression; `a blank stare`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
    
    
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    Blank
    The round disk of metal before it is struck as a coin.
    Found on http://www.austrian-mint.com/5
    
    
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    Blank
    There are a number of uses for the word `blank`: *Blank (cartridge) a type of gun cartridge that contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot. *Key blank, an uncut key *Blank (solution), a solution containing no analyte, typically used to zero an analytical instrument and ensure that any reagents used do not contribute to overall measurements *Blank (archeology) a thick, shaped stone biface of suitable size and configuration for refining into a ston...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank
    
    
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    Blank
    • (n.) 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. • (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color. • (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. • (v. t.) To make void; to annul. • (n.) A piece of met...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
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    blank
    (from the article `coin`) Blanks or planchets (i.e., the small metal disks from which coins are made) seem first to have been cast by pouring the molten alloy from a crucible ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/76