Empty vs Flow - What's the difference?
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Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
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(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
* Shakespeare
Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Exodus iii. 21
Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
* Cibber
Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
* Alexander Pope
Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
(obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
* Bible, Genesis xli. 27
Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
* Shakespeare
(ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
* Bible, Eccl. xi. 3
A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
As verbs the difference between empty and flow
is that empty is (ergative) to make empty; to void; to remove the contents of while flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another.As nouns the difference between empty and flow
is that empty is a container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty while flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.As an adjective empty
is devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.empty
English
Adjective
(er)- an empty''' purse; an '''empty''' jug; an '''empty stomach
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- that fair female troop empty of all good
- I shall find you empty of that fault.
- an empty messenger
- When ye go ye shall not go empty .
- empty words, or threats
- Words are but empty thanks.
- empty pleasures
- pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise
- empty dreams
- an empty vine
- seven empty ears blasted with the east wind
- empty''' brains; an '''empty coxcomb
- that in civility thou seem'st so empty
Synonyms
* (devoid of content) unoccupied, clear, , toom, cleanAntonyms
* fullDerived terms
* empty-handed * emptiness * empty product * empty set * empty sumVerb
- to empty a well or a cistern
- The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
- The clouds empty themselves upon the earth.
Antonyms
* fillDerived terms
* empty the tankNoun
(empties)- Put the empties out to be recycled.
Derived terms
* emptiness * run on emptyflow
English
Noun
Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
* (wikipedia "flow") *Verb
(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.