Drive_out vs Void - What's the difference?

Drive_out is a related term of void.

As verbs the difference between drive_out and void

is that drive_out is (idiomatic) to push or to pull, ie to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere while void is (label) to make invalid or worthless.

As an adjective void is

containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

As a noun void is

an empty space; a vacuum or void can be .

drive_out

English

Verb

(idiomatic) to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere

Anagrams

* English phrasal verbs

void

English

(wikipedia void)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) vuit'', ''voide (modern vide).

Adjective

(-)

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

* Bible, Genesis i. 2

The earth was without form, and void .

* Shakespeare

I'll get me to a place more void .

* Massinger

I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.

Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

* Camden

divers great offices that had been long void

Being without; destitute; devoid.

* Bible, Proverbs xi. 12

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.

Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

* Bible, Isa. lv. 11

[My word] shall not return to me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please.

* Bible, Jer. xix. 7

I will make void the counsel of Judah.

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

null and void

Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

* Alexander Pope

idol, void and vain

(computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.

* 2005 , Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns

In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.

* 2007 , Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development

The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.

Noun

(en noun)

An empty space; a vacuum.

Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.

* Alexander Pope

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.

(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies

(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

Synonyms

* pore * bubble

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To make invalid or worthless.

* (1609-1674)

*:It was become a practiceto void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.

*(w) (1643-1715)

*:after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken

To empty.

To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

*:You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur

*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)

*:With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.

*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)

*:a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices

To withdraw, depart.

*:BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye

To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

* '>citation

*:If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.

Synonyms

* (make invalid or worthless) annul, cancel * evacuate

Etymology 2

Alteration of (voidee).

Noun

(en noun)

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 68:

Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void ’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.

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