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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 in blank
 空白的,待填寫的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Blank n.
 1. 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.   --Swift.
    From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.   --Hallam.
    I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.   --G. Eliot.
 2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
 In Fortune's lottery lies
 A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize.   --Dryden.
 3. 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.   --Palfrey.
 4. 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.
 5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
 Let me still remain
 The true blank of thine eye.   --Shak.
 6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.]
 I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure
 For my free speech.   --Shak.
 7. 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.
 8. Mech. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
 9. Dominoes A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the “double blank; the “six blank.”
 In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.