What's the difference between inane and void?

Inane


Definition:

  • (a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.
  • (n.) That which is void or empty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
  • (2) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
  • (3) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
  • (4) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
  • (5) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
  • (6) The internet has been awash with rumours, the inane chirping of the Twitter ranks rising slowly to a roar.
  • (7) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
  • (8) A sublime opener was followed by the inane offence that triggered Russia's comeback for an ominous victory.
  • (9) Jean-Paul Belmondo disrupts a conventional household in À Double Tour (Web of Passion, 1959) by playing inane practical jokes and completely disregarding table manners.
  • (10) This may be the only way to early counteract medically inane causal relationship being presented by the relative's advocate.
  • (11) One moment Mor was drawing a foul from Pavel Kaderabek and Selcuk Inan was hitting the wall from the free-kick, the next Kaderabek was in on Babacan’s goal and firing in a shot that was deflected wide for a corner.
  • (12) In the minds of the kind of people who bring Talking Heads CDs to parties, their apparent popularity doubtless brings to mind Nietzschean notions of the inanity of the herd and the eternal attraction of bad art.
  • (13) TURKEY Fatih Terim, now in his third spell as Turkey manager, can call on an extraordinarily technically gifted midfield, with the holding midfielder Selcuk Inan allowing Barcelona’s Arda Turan and the Leverkusen free-kick specialist Hakan Calhanoglu to attack.
  • (14) "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast.
  • (15) Before you write off digital stickers as inane, they are a decent moneyspinner for LINE: of the $58m the company made in sales in the first quarter of 2013, half came from selling games and 30%, or roughly $17m, from sales of its 8,000 different stickers.
  • (16) There were also bad and inane films - playing Chinese in Dragon Seed (1944); helpless in Without Love (1945) and The Sea Of Grass (1947), both with Tracy; trying to be Clara Schumann in Song Of Love (1947); and in Vincente Minnelli's neurotic Undercurrent (1946).
  • (17) As holidays are taken and the inane rituals of party conferences loom, too many politicians and commentators seem to have fallen for a comfy bit of groupthink: that what with the odd poor poll showing and this sudden outbreak of silence, the menace has receded and we have passed “peak Ukip”.
  • (18) Yes, where I live we would all appreciate a better commute – which, since I have this opportunity to address you on the subject, would include the summary dismissal of the people who inflict those inane recorded announcements about holding on to our luggage, standing behind the yellow line, using the lifts when carrying heavy items, avoiding slipping over when it has been frosty overnight, and reading the safety instructions before travelling.
  • (19) 'An inane jumble': Trump foreign policy splits GOP on issue party once agreed on Read more Steps away from the chaos, Democrats at the US Capitol used the opportunity to portray Republicans as belonging to the “Party of Trump”.
  • (20) ■ "Wittering inanity", "Fatuous", "Pass the jubilee sickbag".

Void


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
  • (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
  • (a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
  • (a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
  • (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
  • (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
  • (n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
  • (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
  • (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
  • (a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
  • (v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
  • (2) The Lex antigen was present in the void volume fraction of the majority (85%) of sera from adenocarcinoma patients.
  • (3) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
  • (4) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
  • (5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
  • (6) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
  • (7) Residual urine volume and urine voiding efficiency are also calculated.
  • (8) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
  • (9) Some of this LPS-associated polysaccharide eluted as the void volume of a G-100 column but differed from PS by its lack of galactose and arabinose.
  • (10) Cytological examination of voided urine is an established investigation in urological practice.
  • (11) At 12 months TURP had also improved micturition time and voided volume, which TUI had not.
  • (12) Chlamydia trachomatis was detected from first-voided urine sediments of 97 male patients with urethritis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
  • (13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
  • (14) By 16 weeks, fibrocartilage had filled the void in the curetted disc spaces.
  • (15) Both the void volume protein peak and the procoagulant activity peak from the 0.25 M calcium chloride-agarose gel column support ristocetin-induced platelet aggregation.
  • (16) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
  • (17) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
  • (18) The one peak which was common to both sera appeared with the void volume and was identified as albumin.
  • (19) The first peak eluted at the void volume containing lipoproteins, alpha 2- and beta 2-macroglobulins, and the second peak at the fraction of albumin.
  • (20) Oxendolone + bunazosin tended to show a better clinical efficacy than the other of these regimens, when the improvement was defined as that with more than one degree in the severity of retarded voiding, prolonged voiding, urinary stream condition, abdominal pressure on voiding and residual urine sensation.