Void vs. Blank — What's the Difference?

Containing no matter; empty.

Devoid of writing, images, or marks

Not occupied; unfilled.

Containing no information; unrecorded or erased

Completely lacking; devoid

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

Ineffective; useless.

Not having received final processing; unfinished

Having no legal force or validity; null

Devoid of thought or impression

(Games) Lacking cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand.

Showing no expression, interest, or understanding; expressionless

An empty space.

Devoid of activity or distinctive character; empty

A vacuum.

Absolute; complete

An open space or a break in continuity; a gap.

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

A feeling or state of emptiness, loneliness, or loss.

A document with one or more such spaces.

(Games) Absence of cards of a particular suit in a dealt hand

Something without information or thought

To take out (the contents of something); empty.

Something showing no expression or understanding

To excrete (body wastes).

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

To leave; vacate.

A blank cartridge.

To make void or of no validity; invalidate

Something worthless, such as a losing lottery ticket.

To excrete body wastes.

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

Nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

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

Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

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

Being without; destitute; devoid.

To remove, as from view; obliterate

Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

To block access to

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

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

Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

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

That does not return a value; a procedure.

To become abstracted. Often used with out

An empty space; a vacuum.

To fail to find or remember something

(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.

To fade away

(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

(archaic) White or pale; without colour.

(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

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

(construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.

(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

A black cat.

Absolute; downright; sheer.

An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.

Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.

A voidee.

Utterly confounded or discomfited.

(transitive) To make invalid or worthless.

Empty; void; without result; fruitless.

To empty.

Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.

To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

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

To withdraw, depart.

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 .

To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

(obsolete) A nonplus 16th century.

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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 .

Having no incumbent; unoccupied; - said of offices and the like.

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

Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.

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

Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

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

Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

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 .

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.

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 .

An empty space; a vacuum.

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

To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.

An unprinted leaf of a book 20th century.

To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.

(literature) Blank verse .

To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.

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 .

To be emitted or evacuated.

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

The state of nonexistence

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

An empty area or space;

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

Declare invalid;

The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain 17th century.

Clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place, receptacle, etc.) of something;

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

Take away the legal force of or render ineffective;

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

Excrete or discharge from the body

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

Lacking any legal or binding force;

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

Containing nothing;

(firearms) blank cartridge since the 19th century.

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

(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.

(slang) Infertile semen.

(transitive) To make void; to erase.

To ignore (a person) deliberately.

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

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

(intransitive) To become blank.

(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.

Of a white or pale color; without color.

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;