empty
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet.
The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.
Inflected forms:
form: emptier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: emptiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: empties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emptying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emptied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emptied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: empties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
pos: adj
examples: an empty purse
an empty jug
an empty stomach
[…] something in the little man's appearance suggested that he would be sufficiently attentive to his own comfort to choose the emptiest table.
[…] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.
United's stature is such that one result must not bring the immediate announcement of a shift in the balance of power in Manchester - but the swathes of empty seats around Old Trafford and the wave of attacks pouring towards David de Gea's goal in the second half emphasised that City quite simply have greater firepower and talent in their squad at present.
It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham.
gloss: Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
pos: adj
gloss: Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault,
 Right ioyfull of your reformation.
For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd
 Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay,
 Yet empty of all good wherein consists
 Womans domestic honour and chief praise;
gloss: Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
pos: adj
examples: I hope our Ladies treaſure and our owne,
May ſerue for ranſome to our liberties:
Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe,
That we may trauell into Siria, […]
I hope it remaines not vnkindly with your Lordſhip, that I return'd you an empty Meſſenger.
And I will giue this people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to passe that when ye goe, ye shall not goe empty:
gloss: Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
pos: adj
examples: empty words, or threats
empty offer
empty promises
[…] words are but empty thanks; my future conduct best will speak my gratitude.
gloss: Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
pos: adj
examples: empty pleasures
Ev'n I more sweetly pass my careless days,
 Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise;
gloss: Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
pos: adj
examples: empty dreams
gloss: Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
pos: adj
examples: empty brains
an empty coxcomb
Art thou thus bolden'd man by thy diſtres?
 Or elſe a rude deſpiſer of good manners,
 That in ciuility thou ſeem'ſt ſo emptie?
gloss: Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
pos: adj
examples: Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.
gloss: Producing nothing; unfruitful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: an empty vine
[…] and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind[…]
gloss: Hungry.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
pos: adj
examples: Grotesquely vegetal, excessively oaked, empty wines were routinely produced in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1980s, however, the quality has soared.
gloss: To make empty; to remove the contents of.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: to empty a well or a cistern
The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
The suspected thief was requested to empty her pockets.
If the clouds be full of raine, they emptie themselues vpon the earth[…]
He saddens, all the magic light
⁠Dies off at once from bower and hall,
⁠And all the place is dark, and all
The chambers emptied of delight: […]
It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham.
gloss: Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.
Of these the Rhine empties into the Northern ocean and the Danube into the Euxine.
gloss: A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Put the empties out to be recycled.
The east-west flow consists in the westerly direction of the agricultural and industrial products of East Anglia; imports through London and Parkeston (Harwich); special traffic in coke to the Northamptonshire ironfield; and mineral empties returning to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire coalfields.
A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit.
In 1960 Willem de Kooning said of [Leo] Castelli, ‘That son of a bitch, you could give him two beer cans and he could sell them.’ [Jasper] Johns laughed and created a sculpture of two Ballantine Ale empties. Castelli immediately sold the work to collectors Robert and Ethel Scull.
A number of locomotives have been drafted into the area to cover the traction shortfall, including two Class 60s: here No 60039 accelerates away from Eastleigh on the Chandlers Ford branch with the lunchtime Fareham to Whatley quarry empties [empty wagons] on 20 August 2019.
Synonyms: empty
empty as a pauper's purse
empty as the tomb on Easter
clean
leer
toom
unfilled
vacant
vacuumlike
vacuous
void
Antonyms: cramful
cramfull
freighted
fraught
full
jammed
jam-packed
jam rammed
laden
loaded
non-empty
packed
packed to the gills
packed to the rafters
rammed
rammed to the rafters
stuffed
stuffed to the gills
fill
Related words: ∅
∅-
-∅
empty set
Derived words: emptiable
empty the clip
empty the tank
overempty
unemptied
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