(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.
Vacuity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.
(n.) Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
(n.) Want of reality; inanity; nihility.
Example Sentences:
(1) The head of one Tory thinktank judges : “We are going to see the thinnest, most feeble manifesto full of vacuities – but that is a real problem.
(2) "Given the vacuity of this current document, Kevin Donnelly and Ken Wiltshire have essentially only three more months to review six years’ worth of work by hundreds of experts," Wright said.
(3) However, patients with high scores on test scales such as regression, hypochondria, or emotional vacuity showed better fertility characteristics.
(4) 2 Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playlist Paris Hilton is the target; her dog kills itself and the heiress's supposed vacuity is ridiculed in catchy songs.
(5) Kate Smart Director, Asylum Welcome • The deaths of so many migrants in the Mediterranean shows the moral vacuity of EU governments’ belief that we can inoculate ourselves from our moral and legal duty to those in need.
(6) That politics is bereft of altruists, philanthropists and idealists but instead throbs and bristles with stunted show-offs, who, granted flatter abs and cuter noses, would be jiving and caterwauling on Britain's Got Talent or staring with glum vacuity down the barrel of a camera in a mock corridor in Holby City.
(7) For all the moral vacuity and corruption endemic in football's world governing body when it made the decision – and president Sepp Blatter 's oily evasions – this shame is on a greater scale than football.
(8) They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.” Fitzgerald questioned the moral and ethical vacuity of the rich in his works.
(9) Peri-operative cholangiography should be performed routinely, not only to verify the vacuity of the common bile duct (13% of the conversions) but, more particularly, to ensure the integrity of the principal biliary pathway during the dissection (8.5% of the conversions).
(10) Right from an opening extravaganza of workers in hard hats toiling away to the tune of a drill, on through to a penultimate act featuring a horse and donkey, the entertainment was a gala evening managing to combine the Bolshoi's long history of grand performance with modern Russia's supposed cultural vacuity.
(11) In previous essays she said the former Daily Show presenter Jon Stewart symbolised the “decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy”, criticised Lady Gaga for being “artificial and calculated” and drew comparisons between Bill Clinton and the entertainer Bill Cosby, who is the subject of more than 50 allegations of sexual assault.
(12) Leader 'shipping' and transference Part of what piqued people's interest was Brand's change of direction away from the vacuity of celebrity.
(13) These eccentricities can be attributed to failure of the author to engage the mind before activating the pen, a lapse of attention during preparation of the manuscript, or an effort to convey profundity and conceal vacuity by inflated and pompous language.
(14) With a series of interlocking, almost Jacobean sexual betrayals and an eerily prescient plot twist involving an online chatroom, the script rams home the vacuity and folly of desire, particularly in a world where it can ostensibly be satisfied on tap.
(15) Worse, he combined a goofy water bottle moment with a State of the Union response speech of tireless weepy vacuity that exposed his lightweight status.
(16) Success was assumed if vaginal bleeding occurred between days 3-8, ultrasonic examination confirmed uterine vacuity, and a decrease in plasma HCG level was observed.
(17) The vacuity of the CBD was obtained in 96.5 p. 100 of the cases.
(18) These findings suggest that the intralobular lymphatic vessels may originate from the vacuities that surround the postcapillary venules, and the lymphatic system may function as a pathway for the migration of lymphocytes into or out of the lymphatic circulation.
(19) (May has now added a second line to the mantra: “It means we are going to leave the European Union.”) To the cynical ear this is vacuity dressed in tautology.
(20) The show’s title – a reference to the fake area code used in Hollywood movies – hints at both the California setting and the sheer vacuity of the characters inhabited by Berlant and Early across the series.