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See also: võid
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from a Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to Latin vacuus (“empty”).
Adjective[edit]
void (not comparable)
- Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
- Bible, Genesis i. 2
- The earth was without form, and void.
- Shakespeare
- I'll get me to a place more void.
- Massinger
- I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
- Bible, Genesis i. 2
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- Bible, Isa. lv. 11
- [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- Bible, Jer. xix. 7
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- Bible, Isa. lv. 11
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Alexander Pope
- idol, void and vain
- Alexander Pope
- (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
- 2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
- In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
- 2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
- The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
- 2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
Translations[edit]
containing nothing
unoccupied
being without
not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain
having lost all legal validity
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computing: not returning value
Noun[edit]
void (plural voids)
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- Alexander Pope
- Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
An empty space; a vacuum
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Verb[edit]
void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- He voided the check and returned it.
- (Can we date this quote?) Earl of Clarendon
- It was become a practice […] to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bishop Burnet
- after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
- (transitive, medicine) To empty.
- void one’s bowels
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- to void excrement
- c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in Cutting a Iust Pound of His Flesh. And the Obtaining of Portia, by the Choyce of Three Caskets, quarto edition, [London]: Printed by J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216:
- You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
- (Can we date this quote?) John Webster
- With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
- (Can we date this quote?) Isaac Barrow
- a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
- (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xvj, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- 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
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xvj, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
- to void a table
- 1394, Chaucer, “v. 1149”, in The Franklin's Tale[1]:
- Somtyme a castel, al of lym and stoon; And whan hem lyked, voyded it anon.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
- If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to make invalid or worthless
(medicine) to empty
Etymology 2[edit]
Alteration of voidee.
Noun[edit]
void (plural voids)
- (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
- Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
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Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
void
- third-person singular indicative present form of veoir
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