blank vs ether

blank

noun
  • An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all . 

  • Infertile semen. 

  • A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century]. 

  • A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word 

  • Blank verse . 

  • 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 . 

  • A domino without points on one or both of its divisions. 

  • A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century]. 

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

  • 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 . 

  • 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 . 

  • An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century]. 

  • The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century]. 

  • Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century]. 

  • An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century]. 

  • The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century]. 

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

  • 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. 

adj
  • Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform. 

  • Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in 

  • Utterly confounded or discomfited. 

  • Empty; void; without result; fruitless. 

  • Absolute; downright; sheer. 

  • Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. 

  • Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted. 

  • Without expression, usually due to incomprehension. 

verb
  • To make void; to erase. 

  • To ignore (a person) deliberately. 

  • To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event. 

  • To become blank. 

  • To be temporarily unable to remember. 

  • To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust. 

ether

noun
  • The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. 

  • Starting fluid. 

  • Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. 

  • The medium breathed by human beings; the air. 

  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. 

  • The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. 

  • Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). 

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

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