Urinate vs Void - What's the difference?
urinate | void |
(medicine) To pass urine from the body.
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
* Bible, Genesis i. 2
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
* Camden
Being without; destitute; devoid.
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 12
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
* Bible, Isa. lv. 11
* Bible, Jer. xix. 7
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
* Alexander Pope
(computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
* 2005 , Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
* 2007 , Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
An empty space; a vacuum.
* Alexander Pope
(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.
(label) To make invalid or worthless.
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* (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.
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To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
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*: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.
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*: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.
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*:If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 68:
As verbs the difference between urinate and void
is that urinate is to pass urine from the body while void is 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.urinate
English
Verb
(urinat)- 1877' ''See that the bladder is emptied just before he goes to bed. Wake him once or twice during the night, and have him '''urinate . Use all possible means to remove the cause of irritation by giving him plenty of out-of-door exercise and a very simple, though nutritious, diet.'' — John Harvey Kellogg,
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Usage notes
This is a medical term loaned from Latin, but some people prefer to use this word in some social situations as an alternative to (piss) which can be too vulgar and (pee), (wee), etc. which can sound embarrassingly childish. The same applies to the noun (urine).Synonyms
* do business * micturate * piss * take a leak * tinkle (euphemisms) * do a number one * go * go number one (juvenile, probably US only ) * do number one * have a pee * have a wee * make water * pee * piddle * relieve oneself * take a pee * take a wee * tinkle * wee * go see a man about a horse (vulgarisms) * drain one's pickle * drain the lizard * drain the main vein * have a leak * have a piss * have a slash * piss * point Percy at the porcelain * see a man about a horse * see a man about the plumbing * shake hands with the unemployed * slash * splash one's boots * siphon the python * take a piss * take a wicked yes * take a whizz * take care of business * whizz * See alsoAnagrams
* * * ----void
English
(wikipedia void)Etymology 1
From (etyl) vuit'', ''voide (modern vide).Adjective
(-)- The earth was without form, and void .
- I'll get me to a place more void .
- I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
- divers great offices that had been long void
- He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
- [My word] shall not return to me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- null and void
- idol, void and vain
- In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
- The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
Noun
(en noun)- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Synonyms
* pore * bubbleVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (make invalid or worthless) annul, cancel * evacuateEtymology 2
Alteration of (voidee).Noun
(en noun)- 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.
