empty
IPA: ˈɛmpti
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
adjective
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- (obsolete, of a plant or tree) Producing nothing; unfruitful.
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Examples of "empty" in Sentences
- They did not empty the cruet.
- The streets are empty and desolate.
- I always empty and clean ashtrays and wastebaskets.
- The higher the resolution the bigger the empty space.
- The more empty space, the more readily the humidity will drop.
- On the scale of the clumps within the rings there is much empty space.
- On the scale of the clumps within the rings there is a lot of empty space.
- An analogous case concerns the empty conjunction and the empty disjunction.
- Gases always intermix since free molecules will always move into empty space.
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