empty

Definition of empty in English English dictionary: devoid of content; Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value); A bottle previously containing some liquid, especially a drink, and that is now empty
Put the empties out to be recycled.; to make empty; to void; to remove the contents of; {v} to exhaust, make void, deprive; {a} void, unfurnished, ignorant, foolish; having nothing inside; "an empty sphere; a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"; Lack of flavor; used in commerce, esp; An empty gesture, threat, or relationship has no real value or meaning. His father threatened to throw him out, but he knew it was an empty threat. to ensure the event is not perceived as an empty gesture; in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties; needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"; adj kosong; excrete or discharge from the body; An offensive formation that contains no backs in the offensive backfield except the quarterback; {f} remove the contents of, make empty; An element without content is empty It can be signified by two constructs: <foo bar="plugh"></foo> and the empty-element tag: <foo bar="plugh"/> These are identical in effect and some tools will automatically convert between them (hopefully giving you the option) If you leave space such as: <foo bar="plugh"> </foo> the content is a single space (i e not null) and this could cause a validation error if the element was declared as empty see empty [in XML spec]; Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb; An empty box, crate, cask, etc; Similar to hollow; devoid of flavor and interest; make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"; If you describe a person's life or a period of time as empty, you mean that nothing interesting or valuable happens in it. My life was very hectic but empty before I met him; A rectangle is empty when the area contained within it is zero or negative This situation occurs when the rectangle is not normalised, or when it has a height or width of zero A region is empty if it contains no rectangles; If someone empties a room or place, or if it empties, everyone that is in it goes away. The stadium emptied at the end of the first day of athletics. a woman who could empty a pub full of drunks just by lifting one fist; having nothing inside; "an empty sphere"; A colloquial term indicating that the spot cards in a suit are of no value For example: Ace-empty-fifth means a five-card holding in which the only significant high card is the Ace; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles; emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty"; Empties are bottles or containers which no longer have anything in them; To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean; Having nothing to carry; unburdened; a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store" become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied" make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" remove; "Empty the water" holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty" needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children" devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" having nothing inside; "an empty sphere; leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"; Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; said of pleasure, the world, etc; There are few things more depressing than coming into a chatting room or ready to go for an exciting session with your friends, only to find it completely void of life This is a particularly common experience for those from Australia, New Zealand or other countries with similar time, who often like to go in at night, when all those lazy Americans haven't got out of bed yet! Fun can be had, though, by then sitting there and finding out when those lazy Americans actually DO get out of bed and making fun of them And don't fall for the "Oh, I've been up for ages - I've only just come online now" bit either Chatters are addited, remember, so they come on first thing!; A river or canal that empties into a lake, river, or sea flows into it. The Washougal empties into the Columbia River near Portland; " To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern; without any significant cards other than those specified [Example: Ace-empty-fifth means a five-card holding in which the only significant high card is the ace ]; Free; clear; devoid; often with of; devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"; An empty place, vehicle, or container is one that has no people or things in it. The room was bare and empty. empty cans of lager The roads were nearly empty of traffic; holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"; {s} containing nothing; without people; hollow, meaningless; To become empty; If you empty a container, or empty something out of it, you remove its contents, especially by tipping it up. I emptied the ashtray Empty the noodles and liquid into a serving bowl He emptied the contents out into the palm of his hand; Similar to hollow; devoid of flavour and interest; If you feel empty, you feel unhappy and have no energy, usually because you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting. I feel so empty, my life just doesn't seem worth living any more; become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied"; ( -- ) empty the user dictionary xt = 0x1DA; To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern; Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine; Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language; as, empty words, or threats; {i} container devoid of contents; Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams; Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc; A value that indicates that no beginning value has been assigned to a variable Empty variables are 0 in a numeric context, or zero-length in a string context; remove; "Empty the water"; vacuous; lere; kara; toom; teem
Empty Quiver: A reporting term to identify and report the seizure, theft, or loss of a nuclear weapon
empty base: A base without a runner on it
They have to pitch to the slugger because there are no empty bases.
empty chair: A chair which is used to personify the client's object of conflict
empty graph: A graph with vertices but no edges
empty nest: A home or a family where the children have grown up and moved away
Rather than sit around her empty nest reminiscing about bygone days, she converted her sons' bedroom into an office and launched an at-home business.
empty nest syndrome: a feeling of loneliness or depression experienced by some parents when their children have matured and left home
empty nesters: plural form of empty nester
empty nests: plural form of empty nest
empty net goal: Alternative spelling of empty-net goal
empty netter: Alternative spelling of empty-netter
empty out: To completely empty
I don't believe it'll be of much use to him, any more, said he, for it's full of polliwogs an' fish eggs, an' the water has took all the crinkle out o' the straw an ruined it. I guess, Trot, that the best thing for us to do is to empty out all his body an' carry his head an' clothes along the road till we come to a field or a house where we can get some fresh straw..
empty product: The result of multiplying no numbers (defined in order to be able to extend certain mathematical concepts, such as the product of n numbers, to the case where n = 0)
empty promise: A promise that is either not going to be carried out, worthless or meaningless
empty promises: plural form of empty promise
empty set: The unique set that contains no elements. Notation: Ø or {}
empty space: Vacuum; a space containing nothing at all
Atoms are 99.999999999999% empty space.
empty space: An unoccupied area or volume
He spends all his time staring into empty space.
empty space: An unoccupied space where something may be stored
You can put the key in that empty space.
empty spaces: plural form of empty space
empty suit: A person ineffective or incompetent in his/her position of authority. Derived from unfavorable observations that ineffective professionals are memorable only for what they wear and not what they accomplish at the workplace
empty suits: plural form of empty suit
empty sum: The result of adding no numbers (defined in order to be able to extend certain mathematical concepts, such as the sum of n. numbers, to the case where n. = 0)
empty sums: plural form of empty sum
empty the bench: to remove the varsity players from a game and insert junior varsity players. Usually happens toward the end of a one-sided contest
empty vessels make the most sound: noisy, opinionated people are often stupid
empty-handed: Having given or received nothing
empty-handed: Having nothing to give
empty-headed: silly and lacking sense or discretion; featherbrained or scatterbrained
empty-nester: Attributive form of empty nester
empty-nester ststus.
empty-net goal: A point scored when a player shoots the puck into the opposing team's net at a time when the opposing team's goalie has been withdrawn from the game for tactical reasons
Malik added an empty-net goal with 55 seconds left on a length-of-the-ice shot.
empty-netter: An empty-net goal
empty nest syndrome: Empty nest syndrome is a general feeling of loneliness that parents/other guardian relatives may feel when one or more of their children leave home. While more common in women, it can happen to both sexes. The marriage of a child can lead to similar feelings, with the role and influence of the parents often becoming less important compared to the new spouse
empty universals: A cultural universal (as discussed by George Murdock, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Donald Brown and others) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. Some anthropological and sociological theorists that take a cultural relativist perspective may deny the existence of cultural universals: the extent to which these universals are "cultural" in the narrow sense, or in fact biologically inherited behavior is an issue in the "nature versus nurture" controversy. Cultural universals are sometimes referred to as "empty universals" since merely remarking on their presence in a particular culture doesn't actually show anything unique or significant about that culture
empty belly: empty stomach, stomach with nothing in it
empty cartridge: cartridge or shell devoid of gunpowder used in military training exercises
empty feeling: sense of futility, feeling of meaninglessness
empty gesture: meaningless action
empty handed: just as he came, bringing or carrying away nothing
empty headed: stupid, silly
empty magazine: empty ammunition chamber, cartridge from which all the ammunition has been discharged
empty nest syndrome: sadness or depression that is sometimes felt by parents after all their children have grown up and left the house
empty nest syndrome: A feeling of depression experienced by some parents after their children have grown and left home
empty nester: a parent whose children have grown up and left home
empty nester: A parent whose children have grown and left home
empty of all content: containing nothing, empty
empty promises: meaningless promises, promises with no foundation
empty rhetoric: meaningless words, empty words
empty skull: empty headed, witless
empty space: unoccupied space, empty area
empty talk: meaningless words, insincere words
empty words: hollow words, false promises
empty words: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
empty-handed: If you come away from somewhere empty-handed, you have failed to get what you wanted. Delegates from the warring sides held a new round of peace talks but went away empty-handed. without getting what you hoped or expected to get return/come back etc empty-handed
empty-handed: carrying nothing in the hands having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed
empty-headed: If you describe someone as empty-headed, you mean that they are not very intelligent and often do silly things. silly and not intelligent
empty-pocketed: broke, penniless, without any money
empties: Empty liquor bottles
empties: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empty
empties: plural form of empty
non-empty: Of a set, containing at least one element; not the empty set
running on empty: Losing enthusiasm or willingness, lacking energy
His interest in the program had been running on empty for a while. It's likely the program will be canceled.
emptier: {n} one who empties, one who makes void
emptiness: {n} a void space, vanity, ignorance
Emptiness: vanity
Emptiness: vacivity
Emptiness: inanition
came back empty-handed: returned with nothing, returned with no results
emptied: past of empty
emptied: having been made empty
emptier: of Empty
emptier: One who, or that which, empties
emptier: comparative of empty
empties: plural of empty
empties: bottles or glasses that are empty
empties: third-person singular of empty
emptiest: superlative of empty
emptily: In an empty manner
emptiness: suÃ±Ã±atÃ¡ (q v ) - Contemplation of e : suÃ±Ã±atÃ¡nupassanÃ¡ - For emptiness of self, pertaining to the 4 truths, s sacca
emptiness: the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"
emptiness: The emptiness of a place is the fact that there is nothing in it. the emptiness of the desert
emptiness: Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind
emptiness: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"
emptiness: The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach
emptiness: {i} state of being empty, condition of not being filled
emptiness: having an empty stomach the state of containing nothing
emptiness: Lack of inherent existence, the ultimate nature of all phenomena See Heart of Wisdom and Ocean of Nectar
emptiness: A feeling of emptiness is an unhappy or frightening feeling that nothing is worthwhile, especially when you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting. The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression
emptiness: The Sanskrit word is Sunya One of the key concepts in Buddhism Emptiness is an abstract idea representing impermanence, unreality, instability, transience and relativity in the nature of all existence The doctrine states that all phenomena and the ego have no reality, but are composed of a certain number of Skandhas or elements, which disintegrate The doctrine also states that everything is unstable, possessing no self-essence or self-nature, i e , its own existence dependent or caused by the conditions of others' existence Emptiness is not nothing, but it is the condition of existence of everything It permeates all phenomena making possible their evolution
emptiness: the state of containing nothing
emptiness: having an empty stomach
emptiness: The state or feeling of being empty
emptiness: Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory
emptiness: vacuity
emptying: the act of removing the contents of something
emptying: The act of making empty
emptying: Present participle of to empty
emptying: The lees of beer, cider, etc
emptying: yeast
feel empty: sense a vacancy; feel hungry
left empty-handed: left with nothing, left with no results
made empty promises: promised things that will never be fulfilled
on an empty stomach: without eating anything, with no food in one's stomach, hungry

Turkish - English

Definition of empty in Turkish English dictionary
kıçına bakarak/baka baka empty-handed: with nothing to show for one's efforts

empty

Hyphenation

emp·ty

Turkish pronunciation

empti

Synonyms

leer, abandoned, bare, barren, blank, clear, dead, deflated, depleted, desert, deserted, desolate, despoiled, destitute, devoid

Antonyms

full, fill, complete, entire, filled, replete, sated, satisfied, abundant, copious, effective, fruitful, productive, sufficient

Pronunciation

/ˈemptē/ /ˈɛmptiː/

Etymology

[ em(p)-tE ] (adjective.) before 12th century. From Middle English, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtjô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtiġian (“to empty”), Old English ǣmetta (“leisure”), Old English mōtan (“must, might, have to”). More at mote, meet.