empty

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Antonyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Noun 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.5.2 Translations 1.6 External links

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[edit] Etymology

< Middle English empty < Old English ǣmtig (“‘vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried’”) < ǣmetta (“‘leisure’”) < ǣ- (“‘without’”) + -mett(a), --a particle meaning "must, obligation, need, ability" < Proto-Germanic *mōtiþō (“‘ability, accommodation’”), akin to Old English mōtan (“‘must, might, have to’”), geǣmtigian (“‘to empty’”). More at mote, must, meet

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛmptiː/
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empty (comparative emptier, superlative emptiest)

1. devoid of content
2. (computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).

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• full

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empty-handed emptiness

empty product empty set empty sum

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to empty (third-person singular simple present empties, present participle emptying, simple past and past participle emptied)

1. (transitive) (ergative) to make empty; to void; to remove the contents of

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• fill

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empty (plural empties)

1. A bottle previously containing some liquid, especially a drink, and that is now empty.

   Put the empties out to be recycled.

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• emptiness
• run on empty

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[edit] External links

• empty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• empty in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911