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lapse
English
Etymology
From Middle French laps, from Latin l?psus, from l?b? (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /læps/
- Rhymes: -æps
Noun
lapse (plural lapses)
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- Synonyms: blooper, gaffe, thinko; see also Thesaurus:error
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A pause in continuity.
- Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:pause
- An interval of time between events.
- Synonyms: between-time, gap; see also Thesaurus:interim
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
Derived terms
Related terms
- lapsarian
Translations
Verb
lapse (third-person singular simple present lapses, present participle lapsing, simple past and past participle lapsed)
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
Anagrams
- ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Leaps, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, leaps, lepas, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale
Danish
Noun
lapse c
- indefinite plural of laps
Estonian
Noun
lapse
- genitive singular of laps
Latin
Participle
l?pse
- vocative masculine singular of l?psus
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blank
English
Etymology
From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ley?- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blæ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
Adjective
blank (comparative blanker or more blank, superlative blankest or most blank)
- (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- blank paper
- a blank check
- a blank ballot
- a blank CD
- (sports) Scoreless; without any goals or points.
- (figuratively) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- There was a look of blank terror on his face.
- a blank refusal to cooperate
- Without expression.
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
Descendants
- Belizean Creole: blank
Translations
Noun
blank (plural blanks)
- (archaic, historical, obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence [15th–17th century].
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- (obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim [since the 16th century].
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An empty space; a void, for example on a paper [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- Write your answers in the blanks.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee [since the 19th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form [since the 16th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all [since the 17th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (literature) Blank verse [since the 16th century].
- (mechanics, engineering) A piece of metal (such as a coin, screw, nuts), cut and shaped to the required size of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping [since the 16th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- (figuratively) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- The 1 / 230400 of a grain [17th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- the double blank
- the six blank
- (firearms) Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
- (figuratively, in the expression ‘shooting blanks’, sports) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
- (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.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
Synonyms
- (bullet that doesn't harm): blank cartridge, blank bullet
Translations
Verb
blank (third-person singular simple present blanks, present participle blanking, simple past and past participle blanked)
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- I blanked out my previous entry.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- She blanked me for no reason.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.
- The team was blanked.
- England blanks Wales to advance to the final.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
- I'm blanking on her name right now.
Usage notes
- Almost any sense of this can occur with out. See blank out.
Translations
Derived terms
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch blank.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bla?k/
Adjective
blank (attributive blanke, comparative blanker, superlative blankste)
- white
- White; Caucasian
Antonyms
- swart
Dalmatian
Adjective
blank m (plural blanke, feminine blanka)
- Alternative form of blanc
Danish
Adjective
blank
- shiny, reflective, glossy
- Antonym: mat
- (of e.g. paper) empty, blank, bearing no inscription or drawings
- (colloquial) broke (without money)
- Synonym: flad
- (colloquial) ignorant, clueless
Inflection
References
- “blank” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch blanc, from Old Dutch *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl??k/
- Hyphenation: blank
- Rhymes: -??k
Adjective
blank (comparative blanker, superlative blankst)
- white, pale
- white (having a light skin tone)
Inflection
Derived terms
- blank staan
- blankvoorn
Descendants
- Afrikaans: blank
German
Etymology
From Middle High German blanc, from Old High German blanc (“shining, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz. Doublet of Plenk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bla?k/
- Rhymes: -a?k
Adjective
blank (comparative blanker, superlative am blanksten)
- (archaic) bright
- spotlessly clean; shining; polished
- bare; naked; uncovered
- pure; sheer
- (colloquial) broke; out of money
- (card games) being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)
Declension
Derived terms
- blitzblank
Further reading
- “blank” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German blank.
Adjective
blank (masculine and feminine blank, neuter blankt, definite singular and plural blanke, comparative blankere, indefinite superlative blankest, definite superlative blankeste)
- glossy, shining, shiny
- bright, clear, glittering, sunny
- blank (e.g. cheque, paper, mind)
Derived terms
- speilblank
References
- “blank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “blank_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bl??k/
Adjective
blank (masculine and feminine blank, neuter blankt, definite singular and plural blanke, comparative blankare, indefinite superlative blankast, definite superlative blankaste)
- shiny, reflective
- Dei pussa sølvtøyet så det vart blankt.
- They shined the silver until it was shiny.
- Dei pussa sølvtøyet så det vart blankt.
- exactly, point zero (of time)
- Han sprang 100 meter på ti blank.
- He ran 100 meters in ten point zero seconds.
- Han sprang 100 meter på ti blank.
- blank, empty
- Ho gav dottera eit blankt ark til å teikna på.
- She gave her daughter a blank piece of paper to draw on.
- Ho gav dottera eit blankt ark til å teikna på.
- without knowledge about something
- Eg er heilt blank om dette temaet.
- I know nothing about this subject.
- Eg er heilt blank om dette temaet.
References
- “blank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Plautdietsch
Etymology
From Middle Low German blank, from Old Saxon blank, from Proto-West Germanic *blank.
Adjective
blank
- shiny, lustrous, glittering
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German blank, from Old Saxon blank, from Proto-West Germanic *blank. Displaced native Swedish black, from Old Norse blakkr.
Adjective
blank (comparative blankare, superlative blankast)
- reflective, shiny
- smooth
Inflection
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