empty : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: empty	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
empty adj holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" Antonym(s): full devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" Synonym(s): empty, hollow, vacuous needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children" Synonym(s): empty, empty-bellied emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty" n a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store" v make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" Antonym(s): fill, fill up, make full become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied" Synonym(s): empty, discharge Antonym(s): fill, fill up leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" Synonym(s): vacate, empty, abandon remove; "Empty the water" excrete or discharge from the body Synonym(s): evacuate, void, empty
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Empty \Emp"ty\, n.; pl. {Empties}. An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, [bd]special rates for empties.[b8]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Empty \Emp"ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emptied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emptying}.] To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth. --Eccl. xi. 3.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Empty \Emp"ty\ (?; 215), a. [Compar. {Emptier}; superl. {Emptiest}.] [AS. emtig, [91]mtig, [91]metig, fr. [91]mta, [91]metta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain origin; cf. G. emsig busy.] 1. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Empty \Emp"ty\, v. i. 1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. [bd]The chapel empties.[b8] --B. Jonson.