void
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
Inflected forms:
form: voids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: voids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: voided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: voided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.
I'll get me to a place more void.
And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkeneſſe was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters.
c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman
I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
gloss: Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: divers great offices that had been long void
gloss: Being without; destitute; devoid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
with-of
examples: Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […]
Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
I envy not in any moods
⁠The captive void of noble rage,
⁠The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods: […]
gloss: Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
I will make void the counsel of Judah.
gloss: Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: null and void
Taiwan's government says that as the island has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China, its sovereignty claims are void.
gloss: Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And senseless words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!
gloss: Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Having no cards in a particular suit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An empty space; a vacuum.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
pos: noun
gloss: A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
pos: noun
gloss: An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
pos: noun
gloss: A black cat.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
endearing
humorous
examples: My little void is so sweet sometimes.
gloss: An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
pos: noun
examples: From the logistics hub, the spoil will be taken by rail to Barrington in Cambridgeshire, Cliffe in Kent, and Rugby in Warwickshire. It will be used to fill voids at these locations which will then be used for housing developments.
gloss: The lack of cards in a particular suit.
pos: noun
gloss: A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
pos: noun
examples: A hidden void caused by a partially buried pipe being damaged by a tamper during routine maintenance led to the derailment of a passenger train. […] The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) reported that a "large void" was found in the embankment, but had remained hidden until the train travelled over it.
gloss: An instance of urination.
pos: noun
gloss: To make invalid or worthless.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: nullify
He voided the check and returned it.
Opening this subassembly will void the warranty; there are no user-serviceable parts inside it.
It was become a practice[…]to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
gloss: Synonym of empty (verb).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: void one’s bladder
void one’s bowels
gloss: To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
pos: verb
examples: to void excrement
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
gloss: To withdraw; to depart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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
gloss: To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to void a table
If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
Derived words: legal void
null and void
trial of void
void coefficient
void deck
postvoid
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