Empty vs Purge - 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.
An act of .
(medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
(religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
* Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
* Addison
(medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
(medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
(legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
As verbs the difference between empty and purge
is that empty is to make empty; to void; to remove the contents of while purge is to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.As nouns the difference between empty and purge
is that empty is a container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty while purge is an act of purging.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 emptypurge
English
(wikipedia purge)Noun
(en noun)- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
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Verb
(purg)- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.