Blank vs Blind - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between blank and blind

is that blank is while blind is to make temporarily or permanently blind.

As an adjective blind is

(not comparable|of a person or animal) unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

As a noun blind is

a covering for a window to keep out light the may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

As an adverb blind is

without seeing; unseeingly.

blank

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

(archaic) White or pale; without colour.

* Milton

To the blank moon / Her office they prescribed.

Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

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(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

a blank''' desert; a '''blank''' wall; '''blank unconsciousness

Absolute; downright; unmixed; sheer.

blank terror

Without expression.

Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.

Utterly confounded or discomfited.

* Milton

Adam astonied stood, and blank .

Empty; void; without result; fruitless.

a blank day

Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. (rfex)

Descendants

Noun

(en noun)

A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.

An empty space; a void, as on a paper, or in one's memory.

* Jonathan Swift

I cannot write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.

* Hallam

From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.

* George Eliot

I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank .

A space to be filled in on a form or template.

A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.

* Palfrey

The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank .

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

* Dryden

In Fortune's lottery lies / A heap of blanks , like this, for one small prize.

(archaic) 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.

(Nares)

(engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

(dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.

The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

* Shakespeare

Let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye.

Aim; shot; range.

* Shakespeare

I have stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech.

(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.

Synonyms

* (sense, bullet that doesn't harm) blank cartridge, blank bullet

Verb

(en verb)

To make void; to erase.

I blanked out my previous entry.

(slang) To ignore.

She blanked me for no reason.

To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.

The team was blanked .

To become blank.

Usage notes

* Almost any sense of this can occur with (out). See (blank out).

Derived terms

* blank canvas * blank check * blank end * blankly * blankness * blank out * blank verse ----

blind

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) blinde

Adjective

(er)

(not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

* Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

* 1883 , ,

He was plainly blind , for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...

(not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

(comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

The lovers were blind to each other's faults.

Authors are blind to their own defects.

(not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.

a blind''' path; a '''blind''' ditch; a '''blind corner

* Milton

the blind mazes of this tangled wood

(not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.

(not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.

a blind''' wall, open only at one end; a '''blind''' alley; a '''blind gut

smallest or slightest in phrases such as

I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.

''We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.

(not comparable) without any prior knowledge.

He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.

(not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

blind deference

blind punishment

* Jay

This plan is recommended neither to blind' approbation nor to ' blind reprobation.

Unintelligible or illegible.

a blind''' passage in a book; '''blind writing

(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

blind''' buds; '''blind flowers

Derived terms

* blind alley * blind as a bat * blind curve * blind date * blind drunk (See also ) * blind gut * blind map * blind pig * blind pool * blind spot * blind stamp * the blind leading the blind * blind tiger * blinders * blindfish * blindfold * blindman's buff * blinds * blindworm * double-blind * * love is blind * moon-blind * night-blind * purblind * rob somebody blind * snow-blind * stereoblind * word-blind

Noun

(en noun)

A covering for a window to keep out light. The may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

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A mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

Any device intended to conceal or hide.

a duck blind

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

(military) A blindage.

A halting place.

(Dryden)

No score.

(poker) A forced bet.

(poker) A player who is or was forced to make a bet.

Synonyms

* (destination sign) rollsign (mainly US)

Derived terms

* big blind * blinders * small blind * Venetian blind * blind map

Verb

(en verb)

To make temporarily or permanently blind.

The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded .

Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

* South

A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is a much greater.

(slang, obsolete) To curse.

* 1890 , Rudyard Kipling,

If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,

Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind ;

Be handy and civil, and then you will find

That it's beer for the young British soldier.

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

* Dryden

Such darkness blinds the sky.

* Stillingfleet

The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Derived terms

* blind with science * blinder * blinding * blindness

Adverb

(en adverb)

Without seeing; unseeingly.

(poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.