blank space
3
1.6
- noun
- /blæŋk speɪs/
:
espacio en blanco
- Please write your name in the blank space provided on the form.
- fill in a blank space
- leave a blank space
- large blank spaces
This is like this massive, big, just blank space for us right now.
- This is like this massive, big, just blank space for us right now.
- But I feel like it's just missing like some nice kind of like feminine touches and there's a few like blank spaces on the wall.
- In the star maps that we created, you know, working with elders and other primary sources, there's a lot of like blank spaces.
- Basically, what the author did was take this kind of blank space in history where we know names and we know dates, and that's about it.
- I I certainly hope it was just like a blank space or something.
Examples
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Write the clues and leave a blank space for any information that is not given.
Academic text (1993) -
The bill's normal in all respects, except that where the portraits should be, there's only blank space.
Fiction book (1998) -
You see how much blank space we have all this room to work with?
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This is like this massive, big, just blank space for us right now.
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One, it would have left a huge blank space over here between the door and the actual show wall.
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I wanted some place that would be a blank space for me, so I could get into a zone of putting a collection together.
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So leave a blank space just in the middle there and just get the general shape I kind of want.
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And there's a lot of blank space on the page.
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On the observational side, note the large blank spaces that still remain in figures 1-3.
Academic text (2003) -
At this point, the narrative breaks off and there is a blank space between paragraphs.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
148
1.0
An open space between two things, like a pass in hills
103
1.7
An empty space between words or lines in writing
76
1.0
A blank area between words when writing or typing
39
2.9
Blank space at the edge of a page where you can write notes
1
3.7
Empty space around text or images that makes a page easier to read
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines 'blank' (empty) with 'space' (an area), so its meaning 'an empty area, especially for writing or filling in information' is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents. This adjective+noun pattern is a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun blank space comes from the simple image of a page with an empty area: blank means 'empty' and space means an area on the page. So it refers to 'an empty area intended for writing or filling in information'.