(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.
Evacuate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
(v. t.) Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.
(v. t.) To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
(v. t.) To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
(v. t.) To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.
(v. i.) To let blood
Example Sentences:
(1) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(2) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(3) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(4) Today we have evacuated six bodies from inside the fuselage,” Supriyadi said on Friday.
(5) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(6) This may be due to changes in the gastroduodenal pressure gradient induced by evacuating the stomach.
(7) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
(8) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
(9) One patient required evacuation and open packing of the right upper quadrant and lower right hemithorax.
(10) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
(11) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(12) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
(13) The postoperative CT images show successful evacuation of the hematoma, and the clinical evaluation also showed satisfactory results.
(14) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(15) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(16) This series suggests that patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy may safely undergo operative procedures, and patients presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage may show neurologic improvement following evacuation of the hematoma.
(17) In contrast to the broad coverage of the clinical aspects of the aeromedical evacuation, the operational and management control issues have rarely been addressed.
(18) Subdural hematomas were evacuated in 41 newborns during the first 4 days after birth.
(19) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
(20) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.