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empty

Pronunciation: /ˈɛm(p).ti/

The English word “empty” has 15 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
  2. Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
  3. Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
  4. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
  5. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
  6. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
  7. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
  8. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
  9. Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
  10. Producing nothing; unfruitful.
  11. Hungry.
  12. Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.

verb

  1. To make empty; to remove the contents of.
  2. Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

noun

  1. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

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…

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