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Hollow


Definition:

  • (a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
  • (a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
  • (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
  • (n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
  • (n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
  • (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
  • (adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
  • (interj.) Hollo.
  • (v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
  • (v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No evidence for consumptive coagulopathy was noted in the absence of heparin during hemodialysis with cuprophane hollow fiber dialyzers.
  • (2) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
  • (3) The whole thing has made me feel hollow inside,” says one Tory MP.
  • (4) "The hollow words of praise from the home secretary are meaningless today.
  • (5) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
  • (6) A significant improvement in the precision of the hollow cathode as an emission source is reported.
  • (7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
  • (8) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
  • (9) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
  • (10) Pathogenetic and etiologic points of view of the perforation of dermoid cysts of the small pelvis into adjacent hollow organs are discussed in short.
  • (11) This article describes the presurgical evaluation and surgical procedures for the treatment of partially edentulous patients with ITI hollow-screw implants.
  • (12) B43 MoAb was produced in vitro by hollow fiber technology and purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography.
  • (13) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
  • (14) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
  • (15) Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr with Stephen Street, MIM sounds more full-blooded than anything they had previously recorded – notably Hatful of Hollow , the compilation that preceded it.
  • (16) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
  • (17) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
  • (18) We also show that the laminin-derived synthetic peptide YIGSR contains sufficient information to induce single endothelial cells to form ring-like structures surrounding a hollow lumen, the basic putative unit in the formation of capillaries.
  • (19) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
  • (20) At the basis of each pilus, a cell wall differentiation was observed appearing, in face-on-view, as a ring-like structure made up of subunits, and in side-on view as a hollow cylinder penetrating through the cell wall.

Nothing


Definition:

  • (n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
  • (n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
  • (n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
  • (n.) A cipher; naught.
  • (adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
  • (3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (4) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (5) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
  • (6) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
  • (7) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
  • (8) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
  • (9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (10) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
  • (11) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (12) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
  • (13) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
  • (14) We always feel like it's Hobbitshire – a green valley where nothing happens."
  • (15) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
  • (16) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
  • (17) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
  • (18) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
  • (19) I’d argue, furthermore, that these preoccupations are preventing people from seeking support, as if nothing could be more the opposite of these things than admission of the need for help.
  • (20) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.