Blank vs Clean - What's the difference?
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(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
* Milton
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.
Absolute; downright; unmixed; sheer.
Without expression.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
* Milton
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. (rfex)
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
* Hallam
* George Eliot
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
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
* Dryden
(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.
(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
Aim; shot; range.
* Shakespeare
(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.
To make void; to erase.
(slang) To ignore.
To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
To become blank.
Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
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#*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean . ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
#In an unmarked condition.
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#(lb) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
#Empty.
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#(lb) Having relatively few impurities.
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Free of immorality or criminality.
#Pure, especially morally or religiously.
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#*(Bible), (Psalms) li.10:
#*:Create in me a clean heart, O God.
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#*:That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven.
#Not having used drugs or alcohol.
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# Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
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#(lb) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
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Smooth, exact, and performed well.
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(lb) Cool or neat.
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(lb) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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Which doesn’t .
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Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
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Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
*(Bible), (w) xxiii.22:
*:When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
Well-proportioned; shapely.
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Ascended without falling.
Removal of dirt.
(weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
To remove dirt from a place or object.
To tidy up, make a place neat.
(climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
To make things clean in general.
(curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
Fully and completely.
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As verbs the difference between blank and clean
is that blank is while clean is to remove dirt from a place or object.As an adjective clean is
free of dirt or impurities or protruberances .As a noun clean is
removal of dirt.As an adverb clean is
fully and completely.blank
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- To the blank moon / Her office they prescribed.
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- a blank''' desert; a '''blank''' wall; '''blank unconsciousness
- blank terror
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
- Adam astonied stood, and blank .
- a blank day
Descendants
Noun
(en noun)- I cannot write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
- From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
- I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank .
- The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank .
- In Fortune's lottery lies / A heap of blanks , like this, for one small prize.
- (Nares)
- Let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye.
- I have stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech.
Verb
(en verb)- I blanked out my previous entry.
- She blanked me for no reason.
- The team was blanked .
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 ----clean
English
(wikipedia clean)Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (not dirty) * (empty)Antonyms
* dirty * uncleanDerived terms
* clean as a hound's tooth * * clean sheet * clean sweep * cleanliness * cleanly * come clean * lick clean * uncleanNoun
(en noun)- This place needs a clean .
Verb
(en verb)- Can you clean the windows today?
- Clean your room right now!
- She just likes to clean . That’s why I married her.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* clean someone’s clock * clean out * clean up * cleaner * housecleanAdverb
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