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| album |
a book or binder with blank pages or empty pockets in which a collection can be inserted, as of photographs, stamps, or mementos. [1/3 definitions] |
| blue book |
in the United States, a blank, blue-covered notebook used during college examinations. [1/3 definitions] |
| checkbook |
a booklet of blank forms that can be used to pay out money from a bank account. |
| clean |
empty; blank. [1/12 definitions] |
| deadpan |
showing no emotion; blank and expressionless. [1/3 definitions] |
| double-space |
to type leaving a blank line after each line of text or copy. |
| flyleaf |
the blank sheet or leaf in the front or back of a book. |
| glassy |
of the eyes or facial expression, dull and blank; vacant. [1/2 definitions] |
| indent1 |
the blank space on a page formed by indenting. [1/7 definitions] |
| indention |
the blank space between a margin and an indented line or lines of text. [1/2 definitions] |
| interleaf |
an additional leaf or page, usu. blank, that is bound between other pages of a book, often for a reader to make notes on. |
| margin |
the blank space between written or printed matter and the edge of a page. [1/9 definitions] |
| notebook |
a book of blank pages. |
| planchet |
a small piece of blank metal onto which a coin will be stamped. |
| quad2 |
in printing, a piece of type that does not register, used for filling blank areas and spaces. [1/2 definitions] |
| single-space |
to type (copy) leaving no blank space between typed lines. |
| sketchpad |
a pad or book of blank pages of paper for drawing. |
| space bar |
a horizontal bar on a keyboard, as of a typewriter, that produces a blank space rather than a character. |
| tabula rasa |
anything, esp. the mind, that is considered to be blank and without impressions, until it is formed through experience. |
| triple-space |
to type (copy) on every third line, leaving two blank lines in between. |
| white |
with no printing; blank. [1/12 definitions] |
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