empty

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Holding or containing nothing.
2. adj. Mathematics Having no elements or members; null: an empty set.
3. adj. Having no occupants or inhabitants; vacant: an empty chair; empty desert.
4. adj. Lacking force or power: an empty threat.
5. adj. Lacking purpose or substance; meaningless: an empty life.
6. adj. Not put to use; idle: empty hours.
7. adj. Needing nourishment; hungry: "More fierce and more inexorable far/Than empty tigers or the roaring sea” ( Shakespeare).
8. adj. Devoid; destitute: empty of pity.
9. v. To remove the contents of: emptied the dishwasher.
10. v. To transfer or pour off completely: empty the ashes into a pail.
11. v. To unburden; relieve: empty oneself of doubt.
12. v. To become empty: The theater emptied after the performance.
13. v. To discharge its contents: The river empties into a bay.
14. n. Informal An empty container.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Containing nothing, or nothing but air; void of its usual or of appropriate contents; vacant; unoccupied: said of any inclosure or allotted space: as, an empty house or room; an empty chest or purse; an empty chair or saddle.
2. Void; devoid; destitute of some essential quality or component.
3. Destitute of force, effect, significance, or value; without valuable content; meaningless: as, empty words; empty compliments.
4. Destitute of knowledge or sense; ignorant: as, an empty coxcomb.
5. Forlorn from destitution or deprivation; desolate; deserted.
6. Wanting substance or solidity; lacking reality; unsubstantial; unsatisfactory: as, empty air; empty dreams; empty pleasures.
7. Not burdened; not bearing a burden or a rider: as, an empty horse.
8. Not supplied; without provision.
9. Wanting food; fasting; hungry.
10. Bearing no fruit; without useful product.
11. Producing no effect or result; ineffectual.
12. Synonyms Void, etc. (see vacant); unoccupied, bare, unfurnished.
13. Weak, silly, senseless.
14. Unsatisfying, vain, hollow.
15. n. An empty vessel or other receptacle, as a box or sack, packing-case, etc.; an empty vehicle, as a cab, freightcar, etc.: as, returned empties.
16. To deprive of contents; remove, pour, or draw out the contents from; make vacant: with of before the thing removed: as, to empty a well or a cistern; to empty a pitcher or a purse; to empty a house of its occupants.
17. To draw out, pour out, or otherwise remove or discharge, as the contents of a vessel: commonly with out: as, to empty out the water from a pitcher.
18. To discharge; pour out continuously or in a steady course: as, a river empties itself or its waters into the ocean. [A strained use, which it is preferable to avoid, since a river is not emptied by its flow into the ocean.]
19. To lay waste; make destitute or desolate.
20. To become empty.
21. To pour out or discharge its contents, as a river into the ocean.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
2. adj. computing, programming Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
3. v. transitive, ergative To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
4. n. A bottle previously containing some liquid, especially a drink, and that is now empty.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. 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.
2. adj. Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.
3. adj. Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
4. adj. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language.
5. adj. Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.
6. adj. Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree.
7. adj. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy
8. adj. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
9. n. An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight.”
10. v. To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge
11. v. To discharge itself.
12. v. To become empty.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. emptied of emotion
2. adj. holding or containing nothing
3. v. become empty or void of its content
4. adj. needing nourishment
5. adj. devoid of significance or point
6. v. leave behind empty; move out of
7. v. remove.
8. v. excrete or discharge from the body
9. n. a container that has been emptied
10. v. make void or empty of contents