Blank vs. Dud — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Blank and Dud
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Blank
Devoid of writing, images, or marks
A blank wall.
A blank screen.
Dud
A dud is an ammunition round or explosive that fails to fire or detonate, respectively, on time or on command. Poorly designed devices (for example, improvised explosive devices (IEDs)), and small devices, have higher chances of being duds.Duds are still dangerous, and can explode if handled.
Blank
Containing no information; unrecorded or erased
A blank tape.
A blank diskette.
Dud
A bomb, shell, or explosive round that fails to detonate.
Blank
Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in
A blank questionnaire.
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Dud
(Informal) One that is disappointingly ineffective or unsuccessful.
Blank
Not having received final processing; unfinished
A blank key.
Dud
Clothing.
Blank
Devoid of thought or impression
A blank mind.
Dud
Personal belongings.
Blank
Showing no expression, interest, or understanding; expressionless
A blank stare.
Dud
(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
Blank
Devoid of activity or distinctive character; empty
Tried to fill the blank hours of the day.
Dud
(informal) A failure of any kind.
Blank
Absolute; complete
A blank refusal.
Dud
(informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
Blank
An empty space or place, especially an empty space on a document to be filled in.
Dud
A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
Blank
A document with one or more such spaces.
Dud
Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
Blank
Something without information or thought
When I read that question on the test, my mind was a blank.
Dud
Someone who is unsuccessful
Blank
Something showing no expression or understanding
When he told his mother what happened, her face was a blank.
Dud
An explosion that fails to occur
Blank
A manufactured article of a standard shape or form that is ready for final processing, as by stamping or cutting
A key blank.
Dud
An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;
The first experiment was a real turkey
The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
Blank
A blank cartridge.
Dud
Failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive;
He stepped on a dud mine
Blank
Something worthless, such as a losing lottery ticket.
Blank
A mark, usually a dash (—), indicating the omission of a word or of a letter or letters.
Blank
The white circle in the center of a target; a bull's-eye.
Blank
(Games) An unmarked piece or portion of a piece, as a domino tile, whose value may be determined by the holder.
Blank
To remove, as from view; obliterate
"At times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight" (Richard Wright).
Blank
To block access to
Blank off a subway tunnel.
Blank
(Sports) To prevent (an opponent) from scoring.
Blank
To punch or stamp from flat stock, especially with a die.
Blank
To become abstracted. Often used with out
My mind blanked out for a few seconds.
Blank
To fail to find or remember something
I blanked when asked the name of our mayor.
Blank
To fade away
The music gradually blanked out.
Blank
(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
Blank
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
Blank paper
A blank check
A blank ballot
A blank CD
Blank
(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
A blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
Blank
Absolute; downright; sheer.
There was a look of blank terror on his face.
A blank refusal to cooperate
Blank
Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
Blank
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Blank
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
A blank day
Blank
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
The shock left his memory blank.
Blank
(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
The recruits were issued with blank rounds for a training exercise.
Blank
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 .
Blank
(obsolete) A nonplus 16th century.
Blank
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 .
Blank
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated since the 16th century.
Blank
An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
Blank
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
Write your answers in the blanks.
Blank
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 .
Blank
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 .
Blank
An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
Blank
An unprinted leaf of a book 20th century.
Blank
(literature) Blank verse .
Blank
A piece of metal (such as a coin, screw, nuts), cut and shaped to the required size of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .
Blank
Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required since the 19th century.
Blank
(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus 20th century.
Blank
(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void since the 17th century.
Blank
The 1 / 230400 of a grain 17th century.
Blank
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory since the 18th century.
Blank
A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word since the 18th century
Blank
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
Blank
(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
The double blank
The six blank
Blank
(firearms) blank cartridge since the 19th century.
It was an unloaded gun that fired only blanks.
Blank
An ineffective effort which achieves nothing since the 20th century.
Blank
(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.
Blank
(slang) Infertile semen.
Blank
(transitive) To make void; to erase.
I blanked out my previous entry.
Blank
To ignore (a person) deliberately.
She blanked me for no reason.
Blank
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.
Blank
(transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
The team was blanked.
England blanks Wales to advance to the final.
Blank
(intransitive) To become blank.
Blank
(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
I'm blanking on her name right now.
Blank
Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moonHer office they prescribed.
Blank
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.
Blank
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.
Blank
Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
Blank
Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
Blank
Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness.
Blank
Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
Blank
Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
I can not 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.
Blank
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
In Fortune's lottery liesA heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize.
Blank
A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; - especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Blank
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
Let me still remainThe true blank of thine eye.
Blank
Aim; shot; range.
I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasureFor my free speech.
Blank
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.
Blank
A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
Blank
A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
Blank
To make void; to annul.
Blank
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.
Blank
A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing;
He said the space is the most important character in the alphabet
Blank
A substitute for a taboo word;
I hit the blank blank car
Blank
A blank gap or missing part
Blank
A piece of material ready to be made into something
Blank
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
Blank
Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
Blank
Of a surface; not written or printed on;
Blank pages
Fill in the blank spaces
A clean page
Wide white margins
Blank
Void of expression;
A blank stare
Blank
Not charged with a bullet;
A blank cartridge
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