She viewed her students as blank slates, just waiting to be filled with knowledge.
Her expression was a blank slate. [=it did not show any emotion]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
blank slate — A blank slate is something that hasn t been developed or described in any detail … The small dictionary of idiomes
Blank Slate (The Outer Limits) — Infobox Television episode Title = Blank Slate Series = The Outer Limits Caption = Season = 5 Episode = 8 Airdate = 2 April, 1999 Production = 96 Guests = Dale Midkiff Writer = Episode list = List of The Outer Limits episodes Prev = The Human… … Wikipedia
blank slate — noun Date: 1980 tabula rasa … New Collegiate Dictionary
The Blank Slate — The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best selling 2002 book by Steven Pinker arguing against tabula rasa models of the social sciences. Pinker argues that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological… … Wikipedia
blank-slate or blank-paper hypothesis — See tabula rasa … Dictionary of sociology
slate — I. /sleɪt / (say slayt) noun 1. a fine grained rock formed by the compression of mudstone, that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification. 2. a thin piece or plate of this rock or a similar …
Blank Rome — Infobox Law Firm firm name = Blank Rome LLP firm logo = headquarters = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania num offices = 9 offices (1 international) num attorneys = approximately 500 num employees = practice areas = Lobbying, admiralty law, intellectual… … Wikipedia
blank — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, absence, absolute, aloof, arid, awayness, backward, bald, bare, barren, bashful, bewildered, black, blah, bland, blankminded, bleached, blind, blind alley, bloodless, box, calm, cecal, characterless, chasm,… … Moby Thesaurus
clean slate — Synonyms and related words: blamelessness, blank, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakdown, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, clean sweep, cleanliness, cleanness, clear conscience, computer revolution, convulsion, counterrevolution, debacle … Moby Thesaurus
blankslate — blank slate n. Something that has yet to be marked, determined, or developed: “Neurobiologists have been arguing for decades over whether embryonic neurons are blank slates or prefabricated units destined for a particular fate” (Natalie Angier).… … Universalium
