Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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blank

UK /blænk/ · US /blæŋk/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms blanker blankest blanks blanking blanked

  1. adjective (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
  2. adjective Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in. “blank paper”
  3. adjective (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform. “a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness”
  4. adjective Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter. “a blank refusal to cooperate”
  5. adjective (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension. “a blank glassy look”
  6. adjective Utterly confounded or discomfited.
  7. adjective Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile. “a blank day”
  8. adjective Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. “The shock left his memory blank.”
  9. noun (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.
  10. noun (obsolete) A nonplus. [16th century]
  11. noun 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.
  12. noun A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. [since the 16th century]
  13. noun A space to be filled in on a form or template. “Write your answers in the blanks.”
  14. noun Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee.
  15. noun (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in 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.
  16. noun An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all.
  17. verb (transitive) To make void; to erase. “I blanked out my previous entry.”
  18. verb (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately. “She blanked me for no reason.”
  19. verb (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust. “At high angles of attack, the shuttle’s rudder is blanked by the fuselage and wings, forcing it to use its RCS thrusters for yaw control.”
  20. verb (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event. “The team was blanked.”

Synonyms

blank cartridge blank bullet draw a blank freeze freeze up space lacuna dummy blank shell clean white vacuous

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 *bʰleyǵ- (“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.

* As a Dutch and German surname, from the adjective blank (“shining, pale, white”).
* As an English and Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blanc, Blanck.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of a white or pale color; without color.
  2. adjective 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. noun Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
  4. noun A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

Etymology [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch.]

Etymology [Cf. 3d Blanch.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blank”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “blank” (best matches first).