unblank

comparative more unblank · superlative most unblank

1. Not blank.

   So Ushikawa could do as he pleased and let the music filter from right to left, as the unblank half of his brain toyed with random thoughts.

   2012, Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, 1Q84, →ISBN, page 193

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   The symbols treated here have the following properties : i) there are many kinds of symbols, ii) the distributions of the characteristic points are biased, iii) in many cases unblank lines follow unblank lines.

   1971, Information Processing in Japan - Volumes 11-14, page 39

   When I got to the office and opened it up, I went to turn off the alarm and suddenly my mind went blank. Well, you only have thirty seconds to get "unblank."

   2001, Mary Jenson, Taking Flight from the Empty Nest, →ISBN, page 162

   In the eighteenth century, blank places on a map became a symbol of rigorous standards and lent authority to all on the map that was unblank (Turchi, Maps, 37).

   2006, Michael D.C. Drout, J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, →ISBN

present singular third person unblanks · participle present unblanking · participle past unblanked · past unblanked

1. To restore content to something that is blank.

   When the kernel wants to unblank the screen, it sends a SIGQUIT signal to the process running /sbin/screenblanker.

   1998, John Purcell, Robert Kiesling, Linux: The Complete Reference - Book 1, →ISBN, page 1782

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   Energy selection can be included by single-channel-analysing (SCA) the height of the prompt signal and using this output to unblank the display pulses.

   1980, W. H. Tait, Radiation detection, page 199

   Thus, I could collectively blank all orbital features, unblank all eye features, and key in commands to translate or rotate “all displayed” entities.

   1991, Journal of Biological Photography - Volume 18, page 38

   I could unblank your blinking memories of it, but as I have now told you most of the same for the third time, I will finish for Therle's benefit.

   2012, Ewart R N Jowett, The Wizard of the Stove Pipe Mountains, →ISBN