Voided vs Emptied - What's the difference?

voided | emptied |

As verbs the difference between voided and emptied

is that voided is (void) while emptied is (empty).

voided

English

Verb

(head)

(void)

Anagrams

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.

Anagrams

* ----

emptied

English

Verb

(head)

(empty)

empty

English

Adjective

(er)

Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

an empty''' purse; an '''empty''' jug; an '''empty stomach

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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

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