The difference between Blank and Space
When used as nouns, blank means a cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile, whereas space means free time.
When used as verbs, blank means to make void, whereas space means to roam, walk, wander.
Blank is also adjective with the meaning: white or pale.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blank and Space
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Blank as an adjective (archaic):
White or pale; without colour.
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Blank as an adjective:
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
Examples:
"blank paper"
"a blank check"
"a blank ballot"
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Blank as an adjective (sports):
Scoreless; without any goals or points.
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Blank as an adjective (figurative):
Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
Examples:
"a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness"
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Blank as an adjective:
Absolute; downright; sheer.
Examples:
"There was a look of blank terror on his face."
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Blank as an adjective:
Without expression.
Examples:
"Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare."
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Blank as an adjective:
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
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Blank as an adjective:
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Examples:
"a blank day"
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Blank as an adjective:
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
Examples:
"The shock left his memory blank."
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Blank as an adjective (military):
Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
Examples:
"The recruits were issued with blank rounds for a training exercise."
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Blank as a noun:
A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
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Blank as a noun:
An physical empty space; a void, for example on a paper
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Blank as a noun:
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory
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Blank as a noun:
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
Examples:
"Write your answers in the blanks."
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Blank as a noun:
A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.
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Blank as a noun:
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
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Blank as a noun (archaic, historical):
A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence
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Blank as a noun (archaic, historical):
a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
Examples:
"rfquotek Nares"
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Blank as a noun (engineering):
A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, such as a coin, screw, nuts.
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Blank as a noun (dominoes):
A domino without spots
Examples:
"the double blank"
"the six blank"
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Blank as a noun:
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
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Blank as a noun:
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot
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Blank as a noun (figuratively):
The object to which anything is directed or aimed.
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Blank as a noun:
Aim; shot; range.
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Blank as a noun (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.
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Blank as a verb (transitive):
To make void; to erase.
Examples:
"I blanked out my previous entry."
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Blank as a verb (transitive, slang):
To ignore (a person) deliberately.
Examples:
"She blanked me for no reason."
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Blank as a verb (transitive):
To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.
Examples:
"The team was blanked."
"England blanks Wales to advance to the final."
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Blank as a verb (intransitive):
To become blank.
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Blank as a verb (intransitive):
To be temporarily unable to remember.
Examples:
"I'm blanking on her name right now."
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Space as a noun:
Of time. Free time; leisure, opportunity. A specific (specified) period of time. An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
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Space as a noun:
Unlimited or generalized physical extent. Distance between things. Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes or to do something). Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
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Space as a noun:
A bounded or specific physical extent. A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). A gap; an empty place. A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates. A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). A marketplace for goods or services.
Examples:
"Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory."
"innovation in the browser space'"
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Space as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To roam, walk, wander.
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Space as a verb (transitive):
To set some distance apart.
Examples:
"Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill."
"The cities are evenly spaced."
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Space as a verb:
To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
Examples:
"This paragraph seems badly spaced."
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Space as a verb (transitive, science fiction):
To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
Examples:
"The captain spaced the traitors."
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Space as a verb (intransitive, science fiction):
To travel into and through outer space.