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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
empty
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false/empty/hollow promise (=one that will not be kept)
▪ I didn’t make any false promises.
an empty chair (=with no one using it)
▪ She came and sat in an empty chair beside me.
an empty gesture (=something you do that does not achieve anything important)
▪ The President's attempt at negotiation was an empty gesture which failed to satisfy his critics.
an empty slogan (=a slogan that promises something which is not actually done)
▪ We want real progress, not just empty slogans.
an empty space
▪ Another day we returned to find an empty space where the TV should have been.
an empty/idle threat (=one that is not sincere)
▪ She was not a woman to make idle threats.
an empty/idle/vain boast (=a false statement that something is good or possible)
▪ ‘Making knowledge work’ is the university’s phrase, and it is no idle boast not a boast, but true.
an empty/vacant seat
▪ Patrick spotted an empty seat near the back.
deserted/empty (=with no one on it)
▪ We took a boat to a deserted beach.
drain/empty a cup (=drink all the coffee, tea etc in it)
▪ He lifted his cup of coffee and drained it.
empty a bag
▪ I've emptied my bags and I still can't find it.
empty calories (=that do not contain anything good for your body)
▪ Sugary drinks are full of empty calories.
empty (=with no food in)
▪ It was 11 o'clock, and my stomach was empty.
empty (=that no one is using)
▪ There are one or two empty desks in the office.
empty (=with no buildings or people in it)
▪ Outside the city there was nothing but empty desert.
empty
▪ A girl was clearing away the empty cups.
empty/deserted (=with no people)
▪ As he walked home, the street was deserted.
leave sth open/empty/untidy etc
▪ I wish you’d stop leaving the door open.
lie empty/open/hidden etc
▪ The book lay open on the table.
move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
stand empty/idle (=not being used)
▪ scores of derelict houses standing empty
▪ I’m not too thrilled with the way things stand the state that the situation is in at the moment.
▪ The evidence, as it stands as it is now, cannot be conclusive.
turn out/empty your pockets (=take everything out of your pockets in order to find something)
▪ His mother made him turn out his pockets.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ The medical staff dining room was almost empty, and the last group of people were just leaving.
▪ Hey, B4., your glass is almost empty.
▪ The hotel was almost empty and all the young men had been drafted into the army.
▪ It was Monday night, and the restaurant was dark and almost empty, except for four men at a table.
▪ Mary waggled an almost empty glass at them.
▪ It was almost empty, there was nobody around to check with and they duly boarded.
▪ The classroom was almost empty, save for a cluster of little girls who sat at one table rolling and pummeling clay.
nearly
▪ The heat of the day had been replaced by searing cold and the bus was nearly empty.
▪ It was early, and the place was nearly empty.
▪ The barrel was nearly empty and I had to climb right inside to get my apple.
▪ The room was cold, quiet and nearly empty.
▪ Copacabana's tourist hotels are nearly empty.
▪ He shook out a handful of painkillers - the box was nearly empty.
▪ The restaurant was nearly empty now.
▪ But in Kemerovo, where he lives with his wife and three children, the shops are nearly empty.
■ NOUN
air
▪ Between them girders and gantries of black iron ran like gigantic roadways spanning gulfs of empty air.
▪ The empty air was still vibrating slightly with the suppressed fidgets of children.
▪ He was suddenly free, thrusting at empty air.
▪ She felt weightless as they pitched into empty air.
▪ CI5's fingers had closed on empty air.
▪ It gave a last deep cry, its teeth closed on the empty air, and it fell to the ground.
▪ John spun on his heel and ran back to the banister, his fist closing on empty air behind the moving figure.
bottle
▪ D'Arcy saw the two wine goblets on the table; the empty bottle of Haut-Brion.
▪ I loved to pick through trash piles and collect empty bottles, tin cans with Pretty labels, and discarded magazines.
▪ He took the empty bottle and went into the school garden.
▪ The almost empty bottle of Scotch was in keeping with Moore, and so was one glass.
▪ So now the movie houses are taking empty bottles as payment, turning them back in to the bottlers for cash.
▪ In front of each team at a distance of about two yards, place a mirror, a spoon an empty bottle or jar.
▪ They put it into an empty bottle of 7-Up, where it was visible from the bed, like a lamp.
chair
▪ Sometimes children must wait for an empty chair at the milk table before they can sit down.
▪ There was a big table and an empty chair beside her.
▪ As he gazed now at the empty chair, he knew there was no time for doubt.
▪ Seeing an empty chair one day, she walked over and sat down amid bewildered stares from the hot-stove regulars.
▪ Xanthe ambled in in a tousled yawning state and yesterday's clothes and flopped into the empty chair beside Filmer.
▪ The groups obediently broke up as the women scattered to find empty chairs.
▪ He removed his straw hat and placed it on the empty chair beside him.
▪ I drop my stuff on an empty chair and slide into the water before the old man can catch up.
cup
▪ John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink.
▪ Two of the remaining empty cups should be placed on each sheet of paper.
▪ Under the chair, between his legs, were his helmet and an empty cup and saucer.
▪ She placed her empty cup on the table and rose to her feet.
▪ The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction.
▪ My only props were an empty cup and saucer, a telephone and a lifetime of past experience.
▪ I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen.
▪ He sipped his cocoa and placed the empty cup on his plate.
glass
▪ Mary waggled an almost empty glass at them.
▪ Impatiently he signaled for another drink, scooping the air over his empty glass.
▪ William took her empty glass and put it with his on the bedside table.
▪ Heather flung her empty glass at the wall.
▪ It started in Fat Harry's, long after the nominal closing time, across a table littered with empty glasses.
▪ Pressed against the radiator, he eyed a man banging his forehead against the rim of his empty glass.
▪ Their empty glasses were still on the coffee-table, reminding her of the night before.
▪ As he did, Jack tossed his drink at Billy and lunged at his face with the empty glass.
hand
▪ He spread his empty hands to show her he meant no harm.
▪ No less afraid and angry were the other nations of the world, following the drama with open eyes and empty hands.
▪ I came into it naked and with empty hands.
▪ He showed his empty hands, made a move, and displayed a pair of glass earrings.
▪ In horrified disbelief he stared at his empty hand.
▪ To harmonise mind and body, this is the true essence of karate-do: the empty hand way.
house
▪ Rents were again strictly controlled, and empty houses were requisitioned.
▪ Further, he received nourishment at the empty house of Cori Pollenwith the daylight door.
▪ Drew looked at the empty house.
▪ Those empty houses bore mute witness to the violence of the times.
▪ It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house.
▪ He could not have stayed in his empty house.
▪ Obediently he went out and moved it round the back of the empty house next door.
▪ There was no elderly widow to con, but there was an empty house, and one he knew well.
lot
▪ By the 1960s, the red brick city was mottled with decaying buildings and empty lots.
▪ Across an empty lot, on the other side, was an Ames supermarket.
▪ He stood out on the empty lot, flickering lights of a passing train blessing him.
▪ Ben was starting to say something else when he slowed down by an empty lot.
▪ There was an empty lot there full of overgrown weeds and crunchy brown grass and the shattered remnants of a shack.
▪ There are plenty of empty lots, you know.
▪ Found murdered, unidentified eighteen-year old male in empty lot on Jackson Avenue, South Bronx.
nest
▪ No one ever told me either that a stepmother could suffer so badly from empty nest syndrome.
▪ There will be no empty nest, no shedding of familial responsibilities and expense.
▪ I am swimming away from my friends' deaths, from depression and an empty nest.
▪ Many women enjoy an empty nest.
place
▪ Five tired, unhappy men, in the coldest, emptiest place on earth.
▪ First Stevie departed, leaving me and Amy to cry over his empty place at table, then Amy followed him.
▪ There was an empty place at the bottom of the table.
▪ I found myself standing in a huge empty place with signs and arrows everywhere on the floors and walls.
▪ They talked about their day, and tried to ignore the empty place at the head of the table.
▪ By tomorrow night Wimbledon was going to be an easier, cleaner, emptier place in which to live.
▪ From whatever inaccessible pit of bitterness the words reached out to touch an empty place in her own life.
▪ It's an empty place, me and the sky.
plate
▪ Louis sat listlessly in his place opposite his dead wife's high-backed chair and empty plate.
▪ He removes the empty plates and napkins and cups from the table and tosses them into the bag.
▪ When we had finished, Jacob took the empty plates away.
▪ The waiter removed their empty plates and brought huge portions of southern-fried chicken.
▪ The manservant came in, cleared the empty plates and brought a great bowlful of pears and hothouse peaches.
▪ He pushed the empty plate away from him and leaned his arms on the table.
▪ As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal.
▪ As he finished he smiled and handed me the empty plate.
promise
▪ To all these petitions the Crown returned empty promises of redress.
▪ This is the circus of empty promises and dry press releases that are part and parcel of meetings like these.
▪ Maybe, but empty promises are not on the list.
property
▪ An extra £750m will be used before the end of 1992/93 to buy up some empty properties in the owner-occupied housing sector.
▪ Then there are the moves to buy up empty properties and for temporary increases in local authority investment.
▪ Discounts for empty properties will be assessed at 50 percent.
▪ The Government must discontinue their stupid propaganda about empty properties and do something about them.
▪ But, as I understand it, the present legislation insists that all empty properties will be assessed at 50 percent.
▪ Looks at evidence of abandonment including empty property, declining property values, and demolition.
▪ If the landlord proves the stronger, the draftsman should make provision for the assessment of rent for empty property.
▪ The fire spread into the roof of an adjoining empty property.
road
▪ There were just the mist and the empty roads, and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn.
▪ I crossed the fields to an empty road.
▪ He stepped aside and the auburn-haired girl strode forward into the empty road carrying the roses loosely in her arm.
▪ The empty road ran through thick jungle.
▪ He pulled on a beret and stared down the empty road, then he checked his watch, frowning.
▪ Laverne zips across the empty road, the airborne snakes skim along after him.
▪ Rain sped along the wide empty road between the blue sea and the high mountains where ochre patches were precarious villages.
▪ Caro dreamed she was driving along a straight empty road.
room
▪ A large, empty room with high, narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown.
▪ The main character is now standing in a bright, empty room with black and white floor tiles.
▪ What does it mean, standing there in the empty room, bigger than a man?
▪ His voice echoed through the empty room.
▪ Each empty room made the next door yet more threatening.
▪ We stepped in cautiously and discovered a series of bare, empty rooms.
▪ The empty room mocked him, emphasised the lost vitality of her presence.
▪ To prove this, a photographer took a black-and-white picture of a chair in an empty room.
seat
▪ If you are going to reach people through the media, never have many empty seats.
▪ They were sitting in the front row, talking to each other over two empty seats.
▪ The many empty seats in the chamber attested to the opposition the proposals will receive as they are debated in coming weeks.
▪ First off, there were a good number of empty seats.
▪ The questioner should move to an empty seat as far away as possible.
▪ Primo waves his hand at his own reflection and that of the empty seat on the opposite side of the aisle.
▪ Her bêtenoire eased his long frame into the empty seat across the aisle.
▪ The same losing team they were with Wayne Gretzky, and many more empty seats.
shell
▪ Database Database programs are often described as empty shell, content-free and cross-curricular software.
▪ Even empty shells serve as some animals' homes.
▪ Your local dealer should have some empty shells for it to grow into.
▪ Many are in parks and preserves, where those empty shells are safeguarded.
▪ Do not buy snails from a tank containing empty shells or dead snails.
▪ During the course of psychotherapy, it quickly became apparent to Tom that his marriage was a pretty empty shell.
▪ Only the husk, the empty shell of what they'd come for.
▪ But the alert was called off when it was identified as a dummy empty shell.
space
▪ He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.
▪ You can click on an empty space on the desktop and bring up the Task Manager.
▪ I want you to go over to that empty space and turn around in it a few times.
▪ She saw an empty space on the walls and demanded to know where the picture was.
▪ Prosperity was an endless prairie, and corporations expanded almost exponentially to fill those empty spaces.
▪ They did away with the ether 100 years ago or so, and settled for empty space.
▪ Does not empty space whirl continually about us?
stomach
▪ No use mourning on an empty stomach.
▪ The wine Adrienne had kept passing to her was taking hold of an empty stomach.
▪ An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her.
▪ I tend to be very short-tempered on an empty stomach.
▪ She got it shut, and leaning with difficulty to the jolting bowl, she vomited colourless fluids from her empty stomach.
▪ She saw an empty stomach, her cause for existence.
▪ Besides, he had chosen a tasty nourishing meal which would not lie too heavily on her achingly empty stomach.
▪ Alendronate must be taken only with a full glass of plain water, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
street
▪ Down in the housing scheme there was hardly a noise; the lamps fizzed quietly on the empty street.
▪ He gazed down the empty street, and then across it to the marsh, and saw her.
▪ Now she was rattling along the empty streets, the horse's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence.
▪ Ralph waved at the empty street awhile; even the gas fumes seemed to be evaporating before he was ready.
▪ It was a strange feeling to see the military patrols in the empty streets on election day, 15 February 1996.
▪ The rain fell on empty streets.
▪ Air-raid wardens in tin helmets watched the skies and silence descended on the empty streets.
▪ But all at once, then, there on that apparently empty street, I smelled an impossible aroma.
word
▪ He expected her to trust him, but as far as she could see they were just empty words.
▪ Hadn't he said that to express it would be just empty words?
▪ These are not empty words and phrases, but principles given powerful institutional sanction.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do sth on an empty stomach
▪ Alendronate must be taken only with a full glass of plain water, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
▪ I mean, neither of us had eaten since the early hours, and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy.
▪ I tend to be very short-tempered on an empty stomach.
▪ No use mourning on an empty stomach.
▪ The next two got off more lightly: two spoonfuls of vinegar three times a day, also on an empty stomach.
▪ The sensation of nausea on an empty stomach was peculiarly unpleasant.
▪ There was little point, Manville decided, on a man eating on an empty stomach.
▪ They report to work at 8.30am on an empty stomach.
sb sees the glass as half-empty/half-full
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After the divorce, he felt alone and empty.
▪ an empty canvas with a few red blobs in the centre
▪ Could you pick up the empty beer cans over there?
▪ Half the classroom was empty.
▪ He stared at the empty page. The test was nearly over, and he hadn't managed to answer any of the questions.
▪ I hate coming home to an empty house late at night.
▪ I noticed her glass was empty, and offered her some more wine.
▪ I think there's an empty seat in the back row.
▪ I was surprised that the train was half empty at that time of day.
▪ Is this seat empty?
▪ It was 2 o'clock in the morning and the streets were completely empty.
▪ My footsteps echoed across the empty room.
▪ Police say the shot was fired from an empty office building across the street.
▪ The house was empty for two months before it was sold.
▪ There was nothing at all in the room except an empty cupboard.
▪ There were two empty beer bottles on the table.
▪ They have three empty rooms now that the kids have moved out.
▪ We've only got one bottle of milk left, and that's half empty.
▪ We were a little worried to find that half the seats in the theatre were empty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And his pictures were rather empty.
▪ As we did, I looked out in the bleachers, which were totally empty.
▪ Despite a huge investment, they have come up empty.
▪ He sipped his cocoa and placed the empty cup on his plate.
▪ Large areas of the room were simply empty.
▪ The small company of members looked completely dwarfed in the vast, cavernous space of the almost empty concert hall.
▪ Then I walked across empty fields for some hours until I reached a village.
▪ They were young children under a sky that was empty of electromagnetic waves.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ All the pubs and clubs empty out at the same time.
▪ Theresa emptied out her sweater drawer.
▪ This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward, the valuable compost.
▪ I wanted the city to empty out and leave us alone for ever.
▪ I slipped it back into its proper place, noting that the suspicious-minded Rico had emptied out all the shells.
▪ Fifi continues to pack from a pile of clothes she has emptied out of her drawers on to the floor.
▪ Only once the real meaning has been systematically emptied out of commodities does advertising then refill this void with its own symbols.
▪ As the waitress removes the plates, I notice the restaurant is emptying out.
■ NOUN
ashtray
▪ She came up with a routine for visiting the tables, and even managed to empty a few ashtrays.
▪ There were waiters everywhere, coming and going all during the meal, emptying ashtrays, filling our glasses of water.
▪ For example, if he had to smoke in her flat, he could at least have the decency to empty the ashtray.
▪ Duncan was coming closer with the brush and a big bucket, emptying ashtrays and mopping things.
bladder
▪ Then, next time you go to the toilet, try this stop test half way through emptying your bladder.
▪ Marlin was taking his time emptying his bladder.
▪ Subjects then emptied their bladders, saving a sample of urine.
▪ By the age of 3 years most children can voluntarily initiate emptying a full bladder and later a partly full bladder.
▪ As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror.
bottle
▪ He emptied a bottle of white rum into a sticky pineapple brew.
▪ The long trek in hot weather sapped our energy and emptied our water bottles.
▪ One night, I emptied a ninety dollar bottle of cognac into him.
contents
▪ Then Paul saw that he had emptied all the contents, and that the bottle was now empty.
▪ She was emptying the contents of a stone mortar, a tobacco-colored crush of leaves, on to a scrap of coarse paper.
▪ Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat.
▪ They emptied the contents of one tanker into two smaller ones already on the base.
▪ Lorton emptied the contents on to the table.
▪ I filled a glass with water, emptied the contents of the bottle into it, and drank it down.
▪ She wanted to empty the contents of the tin into the sink and flush it away.
▪ They were eventually repulsed by troops, but a military storeroom was emptied of its contents in the melee.
glass
▪ She wiped her lips on a vast white napkin and emptied her glass of wine.
mind
▪ The chair against the wall, which was the only thing to come close to helping him empty his mind.
▪ Take a sheet of paper before going in to any negotiation and empty your mind on to the sheet of paper.
▪ When I try and empty my own mind, every bit of detritus in the world sails by.
pocket
▪ He ordered her to empty her pockets on the carpet in front of her.
▪ This is the only place in the world where they empty your pockets and press your pants at the same time.
▪ He made piles of quarters in his sock drawer when he emptied his pockets at night.
▪ He would take a long time emptying his pockets of change, shedding his clothes, asking me where his pajamas were.
▪ But the sooner he emptied the inside pocket of his jacket, the better.
▪ Once again masked gunmen appeared, lined up all the passengers, and emptied their pockets of valuables.
▪ He had emptied their pockets and thrown away their hope.
▪ When Grandma understood what the man said about wanting to search me, she told me to empty my pockets.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "See you," he called, emptying his glass and making for the door.
▪ By the autumn, the hotels along the sea front were emptying, and the town became quiet again.
▪ Could you empty the wastebasket - it's getting pretty full.
▪ On Saturday night, most of the clubs empty at around 3 am.
▪ Paul emptied the glass and washed it.
▪ She emptied the contents of the tin into a pan.
▪ The garbage cans are emptied once a week.
▪ The judge emptied the courtroom when fighting almost broke out between members of the defendant's family.
▪ The police made us stand against the wall and told us to empty our pockets.
▪ We crept up behind him and emptied the bucket of water over his head.
▪ When we reached Dortmund the carriage emptied, and I was left alone.
▪ You can empty those glasses out in the sink.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alice hurriedly put out the cigarette and got up to empty the ash tray.
▪ Alternatively, you will need to empty the bath and refill it with clean water.
▪ It was absolutely pouring down as though some one up top was emptying buckets.
▪ Once again masked gunmen appeared, lined up all the passengers, and emptied their pockets of valuables.
▪ She came up with a routine for visiting the tables, and even managed to empty a few ashtrays.
▪ The chair against the wall, which was the only thing to come close to helping him empty his mind.
▪ Then, next time you go to the toilet, try this stop test half way through emptying your bladder.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empty

Empty \Emp"ty\ (?; 215), a. [Compar. Emptier; superl. Emptiest.] [AS. emtig, [ae]mtig, [ae]metig, fr. [ae]mta, [ae]metta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain origin; cf. G. emsig busy.]

  1. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, or a container, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

  2. Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of. ``That fair female troop . . . empty of all good.''
    --Milton.

    I shall find you empty of that fault.
    --Shak.

  3. Having nothing to carry; unburdened. ``An empty messenger.''
    --Shak.

    When ye go ye shall not go empty.
    --Ex. iii. 21.

  4. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.

    Words are but empty thanks.
    --Cibber.

  5. Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.

    Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise.
    --Pope.

  6. Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.

    Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind.
    --Gen. xli. 2

  7. 7. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.

    That in civility thou seem'st so empty.
    --Shak.

  8. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.

    Note: Empty is used as the first element in a compound; as, empty-handed, having nothing in the hands, destitute; empty-headed, having few ideas; empty-hearted, destitute of feeling.

    Syn: See Vacant.

Empty

Empty \Emp"ty\, n.; pl. Empties. An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, ``special rates for empties.''

Empty

Empty \Emp"ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emptied; p. pr. & vb. n. Emptying.] 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.

The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.
--Eccl. xi. 3.

Empty

Empty \Emp"ty\, v. i.

  1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.

  2. To become empty. ``The chapel empties.''
    --B. Jonson.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
empty

c.1200, from Old English æmettig "at leisure, not occupied; unmarried," also "containing nothing, unoccupied," from æmetta "leisure," from æ "not" + -metta, from motan "to have" (see might (n.)). The -p- is a euphonic insertion.\n

\nSense evolution from "at leisure" to "containing nothing, unoccupied" is paralleled in several languages, such as Modern Greek adeios "empty," originally "freedom from fear," from deios "fear." "The adj. adeios must have been applied first to persons who enjoyed freedom from duties, leisure, and so were unoccupied, whence it was extended to objects that were unoccupied" [Buck]. Related: Emptier. Figurative sense of empty-nester attested by 1960.

empty

"an empty thing" that was or is expected to be full, 1865, from empty (adj.). At first of barges, freight cars, mail pouches.

empty

1520s, from empty (adj.); replacing Middle English empten, from Old English geæmtigian. Related: Emptied; emptying.

Wiktionary
empty

  1. devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. n. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. v

  2. (context transitive ergative English) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.

Related phrases:
WordNet
empty

  1. adj. holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" [ant: full]

  2. devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: hollow, vacuous]

  3. having nothing inside; "an empty sphere"

  4. needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children" [syn: empty-bellied]

  5. emptied of emotion; "after the violent argument he felt empty"

  6. [also: emptied, emptiest, emptier]

empty

  1. v. make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" [ant: fill]

  2. become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied" [syn: discharge] [ant: fill]

  3. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" [syn: vacate, abandon]

  4. remove; "Empty the water"

  5. excrete or discharge from the body [syn: evacuate, void]

  6. [also: emptied, emptiest, emptier]

empty

  1. n. a container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

  2. [also: emptied, emptiest, emptier]

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Empty (TV series)

Empty is a six-episode BBC Two sitcom first broadcast on 28 February 2008. It stars Gregor Fisher and Billy Boyd as Jacky Allen and Tony MacBryan respectively, two men who work for a property maintenance company 'Greater Glasgow Building Services'.

Empty (God Lives Underwater album)

Empty is God Lives Underwater's first full-length album, released in September 12, 1995 via American Recordings. Several songs from this album have featured in movies: "Tortoise" was used in the movie National Lampoon's Senior Trip, " No More Love" was used in Johnny Mnemonic, and "Weight"—an outtake from Empty—was featured in Mortal Kombat: More Kombat.

Empty (The Click Five song)

"Empty" is The Click Five's third single for Thailand and the Philippines and the second single for Singapore and Malaysia taken from their album Modern Minds and Pastimes. Songwriter/keyboardist Ben Romans told Songfacts: "This is a song that actually came right before the record. And I remember it was one of those weird melody things. I have a studio in Boston and I kept hearing this melody, and I had to pull over when I was singing in the car. But fortunately I didn't forget it."

Empty (Tait album)

Empty is the first studio album released by Christian rock band Tait and was the first of three solo albums released by members of dc Talk following their 2001 hiatus to work on solo projects. This album features Pete Stewart from Grammatrain, who is absent in the next album. Several songs are influenced by the passing of Michael Tait's late father Nathel, for whom the band is named.

The advance pre-release copy for this album contained slightly different mixes to the released CD and omitted the track "Altars" as well as both hidden tracks. "Altars" is the only song from this album to be turned into a music video; "Loss For Words" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie Extreme Days.

There are two hidden tracks on this CD, one an instrumental piece that appears after the closing track "Unglued," the other in the pregap (or "zero" index) before the opening track "Alibi," which can be accessed by pressing the 'rewind' button on the CD player when track one begins. The disc scans back 6 minutes and 48 seconds into negative numbers revealing answering machine messages with Michael Tait doing various character impersonations. There is also a short joke-oriented piece in this hidden track.

Empty (magazine)

Empty is a cult, Australian "creative" magazine, concerned largely with printed design work, photography, illustration and film, created for the professional creative community.

The magazine is published by Sydney-based Design is Kinky studio, curators of the Semi-Permanent design festival, a fixture in design culture's global landscape, which occurs annually in Australia.

The magazine acts largely as a gallery of artwork, both domestic and international. It also features cultural commentary and interviews with artists, animators, other magazines, and so on. Notable interviewees have included Mark Andrews, head of story on The Incredibles (cover story, issue 2, late-2004) and Dan Houser of Rockstar Games (issue 3, early-2005).

Empty was launched in April 2004 and is published somewhat arbitrarily, but usually occurs on a bi-monthly basis.

The magazine features little to no advertising whatsoever.

Current editor is Andrew Johnstone, creator of Empty and the above-mentioned Design is Kinky and Semi-Permanent.

The magazine enjoys newsstand distribution, but at this time is distributed only within Australia.

Empty (Garbage song)

"Empty" is a song by American-Scottish alternative rock band Garbage. It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album Strange Little Birds (2016) on 20 April 2016 by their independent label Stunvolume.

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Usage examples of "empty".

The aliens targeted their blue lightning on the empty projectiles, giving the blitzkrieg scoops a few more seconds to escape.

She sighed, reached out to close her eyes and, with a little cry, snatched her hand away from the empty sockets.

In the small hours the common room slowly emptied as even those who had rooms abovestairs staggered off to find their beds.

Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.

Parade Square seemed abustle now, whereas it usually seemed empty to me.

Philas, her face drab and empty, her hair lying limply against her angular skull, looked to Adda as if she had nothing left to lose anyway.

Finding a mostly empty box of sugar coated cereal, she sat down at the kitchen counter with it and ate it dry, wondering where Adonis had gone off to.

Beyond her were the two empty seats of Frey and Gerda, then Bragi and Idun, old Aegir and his wife, and brooding, silent Tyr.

A servo arm located behind the bar, which glowed with its own colony of bioluminescent bacteria, gently picked up the aerogel cylinder and placed it in sequence behind half a dozen other empties, to be refilled in its turn.

The afterburning climb had nearly emptied her tanks, but she had enough to make Langley without tanking again.

The barn was empty, and the concrete aisleway felt cold and threatening in comparison to the bright rectangles of warm sunlight framed by the doorways at either end.

Pagans, who had long wondered at the strange report of an empty sanctuary, were at a loss to discover what could be the object, or what could be the instruments, of a worship which was destitute of temples and of altars, of priests and of sacrifices.

So he commenced to bargain, and in the end the person of Meriem passed from the possession of the black chieftain into that of the two Swedes in consideration of six yards of Amerikan, three empty brass cartridge shells and a shiny, new jack knife from New Jersey.

If Othea emptied her cup before the Sons of Annam, the titan would stop them.

As he stared at the empty features Apolline snatched hold of his hand.