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Empty vs Alone - What's the difference?

empty | alone |

As adjectives the difference between empty and alone

is that empty is devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant while alone is by oneself, solitary.

As a verb empty

is (ergative) to make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.

As a noun empty

is a container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty .

As an adverb alone is

by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.

empty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
    • an empty''' purse; an '''empty''' jug; an '''empty stomach
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=United's stature is such that one result must not bring the immediate announcement of a shift in the balance of power in Manchester - but the swathes of empty seats around Old Trafford and the wave of attacks pouring towards David de Gea's goal in the second half emphasised that City quite simply have greater firepower and talent in their squad at present.}}
  • (computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
  • (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of .
  • * Milton
    • that fair female troop empty of all good
  • * Shakespeare
    • I shall find you empty of that fault.
  • Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
  • * Shakespeare
    • an empty messenger
  • * Bible, Exodus iii. 21
    • When ye go ye shall not go empty .
  • Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
    • empty words, or threats
  • * Cibber
    • Words are but empty thanks.
  • Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
    • empty pleasures
  • * Alexander Pope
    • pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise
  • Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
    • empty dreams
  • (obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
    • an empty vine
  • * Bible, Genesis xli. 27
    • seven empty ears blasted with the east wind
  • Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
    • empty''' brains; an '''empty coxcomb
  • * Shakespeare
    • that in civility thou seem'st so empty

    Synonyms

    * (devoid of content) unoccupied, clear, , toom, clean

    Antonyms

    * full

    Derived terms

    * empty-handed * emptiness * empty product * empty set * empty sum

    Verb

  • (ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
    • to empty a well or a cistern
    The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
  • * Bible, Eccl. xi. 3
    • The clouds empty themselves upon the earth.

    Antonyms

    * fill

    Derived terms

    * empty the tank

    Noun

    (empties)
  • A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
    • Put the empties out to be recycled.

    Derived terms

    * emptiness * run on empty

    External links

    * * English refractory feminine rhymes 1000 English basic words

    alone

    English

    (wikipedia alone)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • By oneself, solitary.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) ii. 18
  • *:It is not good that the man should be alone .
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
  • Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
  • :
  • *(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
  • *:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
  • Considered separately.
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
  • Without equal.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author= Ian Traynor
    • , volume=189, issue=11, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Rise of Europe's new autocrats , passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}
  • (lb) Unique; rare; matchless.
  • :(Shakespeare)

    • Usage notes

    * Used after what it modifies.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
  • Without outside help.
  • Exclusively.

    • Usage notes

    * Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase. *: Only the teacher knew'' vs. ''The teacher alone knew

    Synonyms

    * (by oneself) lone, lonely, single, solitary, solo * (without outside help) singlehandedly, by myself * (exclusively)

    Derived terms

    * alonely * leave alone * let alone

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