What's the difference between clear and empty?

Clear


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
  • (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
  • (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
  • (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
  • (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
  • (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
  • (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
  • (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
  • (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
  • (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
  • (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
  • (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
  • (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
  • (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.
  • (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.
  • (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
  • (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
  • (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
  • (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
  • (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
  • (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
  • (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
  • (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
  • (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.
  • (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
  • (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (3) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
  • (4) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (5) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (6) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
  • (7) Although antihistamines are widely used for symptomatic treatment of seasonal (allergic) rhinitis, the role of histamines in the pathogenesis of infectious rhinitis is not clear.
  • (8) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (9) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (10) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
  • (11) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
  • (12) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (13) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (14) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
  • (15) The trophozoites and pseudocysts could be clearly demonstrated by immunohistochemistry.
  • (16) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
  • (17) The results clearly show that the acute hyperthermia of unrestrained rats induced by either peripheral or central injections of morphine is not caused by activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis.
  • (18) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (19) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
  • (20) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.

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.