What's the difference between array and empty?

Array


Definition:

  • (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
  • (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
  • (n.) An imposing series of things.
  • (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
  • (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
  • (n.) The panel itself.
  • (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  • (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
  • (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
  • (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
  • (2) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (3) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
  • (4) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (5) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
  • (6) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
  • (7) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (8) Several characteristics of plasma membrane (caveolae, rectilinear arrays, intramembranous particles) and sarcoplasmic reticulum which show fiber type differences in the adult ALD and PLD muscles are compared in the developmental stages.
  • (9) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
  • (10) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
  • (11) Lens fibres were found to possess a varied array of well defined interlocking processes.
  • (12) The stimuli were presented in a spatial array so that the spatial (left-right) order never corresponded with the temporal (first-last) order.
  • (13) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
  • (14) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (15) Under conditions of chemotaxis with activated serum beneath the filter, the neutrophil population oriented at the filter surface with nuclei located away from the stimulus, centrioles and associated radial array of microtubules beneath the nuclei, and microfilament-rich pseudopods penetrating the filter pores.
  • (16) Nomograms for square planar arrays spanning the range from 3 X 3 cm to 10 X 10 cm were developed.
  • (17) The STM topographical arrays and the molecular dimensions obtained are in good quantitative agreement with the corresponding X-ray crystallographic data.
  • (18) Ultrastructurally, they consist of membranous arrays which often are of the "zebra body" variety.
  • (19) Each sarcomere position is stored in a three-dimensional (3-D) matrix array from which Fraunhofer light diffraction patterns have been calculated using numerical methods based on Fourier transforms.
  • (20) Absorbance changes were monitored with a 124-element photodiode array, while extracellular electrodes monitored activity of the 6 buccal nerves.

Empty


Definition:

  • (superl.) 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.
  • (superl.) Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.
  • (superl.) Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
  • (superl.) Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.
  • (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.
  • (superl.) Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
  • (superl.) Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.
  • (superl.) Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
  • (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
  • (v. i.) To become empty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, empty shells can also form independently of intact virions.
  • (2) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
  • (3) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (4) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
  • (5) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (6) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (7) Gastric emptying curves for all three meals in controls were best described using loge transformed counts.
  • (8) In this ewe, and in 4 of 7 other sheep diagnosed as having abomasal emptying defects, aspartate transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities were high, and histopathologic evidence of hepatic congestion and ischemia was found.
  • (9) In controls the conduit emptied mainly by means of low pressure, to-and-fro activity.
  • (10) Partly purified virus preparations degraded to empty capsids when incubated in guinea pig serum.
  • (11) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
  • (12) During heavy exercise at 65-75% of VO2 max, time till exhaustion correlates with the pre-exercise muscle glycogen concentration and exhaustion coincides with empty glycogen stores.
  • (13) On the other hand, esophageal emptying of solid isotopic meals may show the persistence of food in the diverticular sac long time after the meal.
  • (14) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (15) These findings do not support the contention that selective vagotomy alone allows normal gastric emptying.
  • (16) In those with poor results, four had complete emptying and three had rectoanal intussusception.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
  • (18) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
  • (19) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (20) The results were in line with the suggestion that proteins in food contribute to the slowing of gastric emptying in such a way that isocaloric amounts of carbohydrate and mixed protein have the same effect.