Blank vs. Space — What's the Difference?

Devoid of writing, images, or marks

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime.

Containing no information; unrecorded or erased

(Mathematics) A set of elements or points satisfying specified geometric postulates

Having spaces for information to be provided; not completed or filled in

The infinite extension of the three-dimensional region in which all matter exists.

Not having received final processing; unfinished

The expanse in which the solar system, stars, and galaxies exist; the universe.

Devoid of thought or impression

The region of this expanse beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Showing no expression, interest, or understanding; expressionless

An extent or expanse of a surface or three-dimensional area

Devoid of activity or distinctive character; empty

A blank or empty area

Absolute; complete

An area provided for a particular purpose

An empty space or place, especially an empty space on a document to be filled in.

Reserved or available accommodation on a public transportation vehicle.

A document with one or more such spaces.

A period or interval of time

Something without information or thought

A little while

Something showing no expression or understanding

Sufficient freedom from external pressure to develop or explore one's needs, interests, and individuality

A manufactured article of a standard shape or form that is ready for final processing, as by stamping or cutting

(Music) One of the intervals between the lines of a staff.

A blank cartridge.

(Printing) One of the blank pieces of type or other means used for separating words or characters.

Something worthless, such as a losing lottery ticket.

One of the intervals during the telegraphic transmission of a message when the key is open or not in contact.

A mark, usually a dash (—), indicating the omission of a word or of a letter or letters.

Blank sections in printed material or broadcast time available for use by advertisers.

The white circle in the center of a target; a bull's-eye.

To organize or arrange with spaces between

(Games) An unmarked piece or portion of a piece, as a domino tile, whose value may be determined by the holder.

To separate or keep apart

To remove, as from view; obliterate

(Slang) To stupefy or disorient. Often used with out

To block access to

To be or become stupefied or disoriented. Often used with out

(Sports) To prevent (an opponent) from scoring.

(heading) Of time.

To punch or stamp from flat stock, especially with a die.

Free time; leisure, opportunity.

To become abstracted. Often used with out

A specific (specified) period of time.

To fail to find or remember something

An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.

To fade away

(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

(archaic) White or pale; without colour.

Distance between things.

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

Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).

(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.

Absolute; downright; sheer.

The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.

Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.

The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.

Utterly confounded or discomfited.

(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.

Empty; void; without result; fruitless.

A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.

Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.

(music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.

(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.

A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.

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 .

(metal type) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).

(obsolete) A nonplus 16th century.

A gap; an empty place.

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 .

(geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.

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

A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).

An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .

A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.

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

Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.

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 .

To roam, walk, wander.

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 .

(transitive) To set some distance apart.

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

To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.

An unprinted leaf of a book 20th century.

To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

(literature) Blank verse .

To travel into and through outer space.

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 .

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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

Place, having more or less extension; room.

(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus 20th century.

A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.

(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void since the 17th century.

Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.

The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain 17th century.

A short time; a while.

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

Walk; track; path; course.

A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word since the 18th century

A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, - used to separate words or letters.

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

One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.

(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.

That portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; - called also outer space.

(firearms) blank cartridge since the 19th century.

To walk; to rove; to roam.

An ineffective effort which achieves nothing since the 20th century.

To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

(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.

The unlimited expanse in which everything is located;

(slang) Infertile semen.

An empty area (usually bounded in some way between things);

(transitive) To make void; to erase.

An area reserved for some particular purpose;

To ignore (a person) deliberately.

A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing;

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

The interval between two times;

(transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.

A blank area;

(intransitive) To become blank.

One of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff;

(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.

(printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words

Of a white or pale color; without color.

Place at intervals;

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.

Utterly confounded or discomfited.

Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

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.

Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.

Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

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.

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.

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

Aim; shot; range.

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.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

To make void; to annul.

To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing;

A substitute for a taboo word;

A blank gap or missing part

A piece of material ready to be made into something

A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning

Of a surface; not written or printed on;

Void of expression;

Not charged with a bullet;