Difference between Blank and Empty

What is the difference between Blank and Empty?

Blank as an adjective is without color; lacking characteristics which give variety. while Empty as an adjective is devoid of content

Blank

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Without color; lacking characteristics which give variety. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. Without expression.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make void; to erase. To ignore. To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bullet that doesn't harm; a cartridge inserted into a gun that fires no projectile. A void space on a paper. A space to be filled in on a form or template. 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. Nares. 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." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

Example sentence: There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

Empty

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to make empty; to void; to remove the contents of

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: devoid of contentContaining no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bottle previously containing some liquid, especially a drink, and that is now empty.

Example sentence: Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

We hope you now know whether to use Blank or Empty in your sentence.

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