void
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /vɔɪd/
void (not comparable)
- Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
- Bible, Genesis i. 2
- The earth was without form, and void.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- I'll get me to a place more void.
- I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
- Bible, Genesis i. 2
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- Bible, Isa. lv. 11
- [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- Bible, Jer. xix. 7
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- Bible, Isa. lv. 11
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
- French: nul, invalide
- German: ungültig, nichtig
- Italian: nullo, non valido
- Portuguese: nulo, inválido
- Russian: недействительный
- Spanish: nulo, inválido
- Italian: vuoto
void (plural voids)
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- French: vide, néant
- German: Leere
- Italian: vacuo, vuoto
- Portuguese: vazio, vácuo
- Russian: пустота́
- Spanish: vacío
- German: Hohlraum (rare), Void
void (voids, present participle voiding; past and past participle voided)
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- He voided the check and returned it.
- It was become a practice […] to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
- after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
- (transitive, medicine) To empty.
- void one’s bowels
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- to void excrement
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
- You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
- With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
- a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
- (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.14?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xvj], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon […] / Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:3.14?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xvj], in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
- to void a table
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
- If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
- French: annuler, résilier, révoquer
- German: löschen, annullieren
- Italian: annullare, invalidare
- Portuguese: anular, invalidar
- Russian: аннулировать
- Spanish: anular, invalidar
- German: entleeren, leeren
- Italian: svuotare
- Portuguese: esvaziar, evacuar
- Russian: опорожнять
- Spanish: evacuar
void (plural voids)
- (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
- Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
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