(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.
Purge
Definition:
(v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
(v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
(v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
(v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
(v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
(v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
(v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
(v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification.
(v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
(v. t.) The act of purging.
(v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus photosensitization using AISPc may be an effective method of purging marrow autografts in some cases of AML.
(2) Current investigations include the development of more effective cytoreductive regimens, use of recombinant hematopoietic growth factors, improvement of marrow purging techniques, and enhancement of cell-mediated anti-leukemic activity in patients receiving autologous marrow transplants.
(3) Direct detection of chromium in milk, using only argon as purge gas, was inferior.
(4) Indiana Indiana began to purge inactive voters in may 2014 by sending postcards to all registered voters.
(5) Sequential application of the two methods (immunorosette depletion with CD19 McAb followed by a complement lysis with CD9 and CD10 McAbs) led to superior results in causing a 4- to 5-log purging effect.
(6) Reduced caloric intake, a hallmark of both disorders, is manifested by self-induced starvation in anorexia and by binge eating and gastrointestinal purging in bulimia.
(7) Mafosfamide is presently used for the purging of bone marrow in autologous bone marrow transplantation in the treatment of acute leukemia.
(8) The two log difference in the surviving fraction of CFU-L and CFU-S after 120 min exposure to 42.5 degrees C suggests that hyperthermia ex vivo may be a suitable purging method for autologous bone marrow transplantation.
(9) There are already calls for large protests in Egypt this week demanding fair trials and retribution, as well as measures to purge former regime officials from political and economic life.
(10) Our data suggest that this new strategy shows potential for more effective ex vivo marrow purging in autologous marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(11) In summary, laser light-induced photosensitization with MC540 has a selective cytotoxicity to leukemic cells; therefore, this procedure may be useful for purging neoplastic cells from autologous BM.
(12) Pretransplantation regimes were: total-body irradiation (TBI), 456; busulfan plus cyclophosphamide (BU-CY) 174; marrow purging with mafosfamide, 269 (corresponding to 26% of all patients in CR1 and 41% in CR2).
(13) Phase 1 studies of "in vivo purging" with a monovalent CD3 antibody (Clark et al., 1989), and also with a genetically engineered humanized IgG1 (CAMPATH-1H) (Hale et al., 1988b) suggest that these limitations can be overcome.
(14) Despite patient and disease heterogeneity, different sources of hemopoietic stem cells (allogeneic or autologous, bone marrow or blood), ex vivo purging of autografts, and different preparative regimens, some general recommendations can be made: (1) Allogeneic BMT should be reserved for patients under age 50, where transplant-related mortality can be expected not to exceed 30%; 40% will achieve CR with a 3-year relapse-free survival expectation of 70%, and (2) With autologous transplantation, low mortality under 10% and marked therapeutic benefit (greater than 30% CR, 80% overall survival at greater than 3 years) seem to be achievable mainly if performed when tumor bulk is low and standard doses of therapy are still effective.
(15) The transfusion purging leukocytes may diminish the occasions of alloimmunization.
(16) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(17) We feel that this system will prove valuable for monitoring ex vivo tumor removal in future clinical studies and should be considered for use in other purging trials.
(18) The quantitative determination of the efficacy of these purging methods is generally difficult.
(19) The government began aggressively purging the heads of cultural and academic institutions (a notable number of them Jewish and liberal intellectuals suspected of a “foreign” mindset) and installing in their stead true believers in the Magyar way.
(20) The result of our study in patients in second and third remission using in vitro purging of bone marrow with monoclonal antibodies PM-81 and AML2-23 are encouraging, as are the studies of purging with 4-HC.