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noun
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- an empty area or space
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- the state of nonexistence
adj
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
verb
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
noun
phrase
- (originally prescientifically, idiomatic) Generating a vacuum is impossible (a vacuum can never exist) owing to the inherent nature of the universe.
- (sciences, technology, idiomatic) Generating and maintaining a near-vacuum is challenging (requiring technical rigor) because ambient pressure tends to push matter forcefully into the evacuated chamber; and generating a true vacuum (devoid of any matter at all) is extremely challenging.
pron
adj
intj
noun
adv
noun
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
verb
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- be inadequate or objectionable
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- take in, also metaphorically
- give suck to
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
noun
- the act of sucking
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
- (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
- (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
- (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
noun
noun
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
- (physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.
- (slang, vulgar) A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane.
- A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
- A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
- (colloquial) A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- (attributive) A circular life raft.
- (music, slang) A whole note.
- (Australia, Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
- a toroidal shape
verb
verb
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- move people from their homes or country
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- excrete or discharge from the body
- remove content from
noun
- (uncountable, usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near-vacuum of outer space.
- (uncountable, loosely) The substance of the atmosphere on a planet other than Earth.
- (uncountable) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- The substance of the atmosphere seen as an agency of freshness.
- (historical, philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- (countable, uncountable) An air conditioning system.
- (uncountable, snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) The state of being briefly airborne during a jump.
- A feeling or sense.
- (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- (music) A melody or song, especially a solo; an aria.
- (uncountable) Publicity.
- (historical, medicine) A local environment or atmosphere, in the context of its effects on behavior, health, weather, etc.
- (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- medium for radio and television broadcasting
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- the region above the ground
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- travel via aircraft
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of are.
- (transitive) To make public (an opinion, concern, issue, secret, differences, etc); to present to public view (and sometimes discussion).
- (transitive) To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- (transitive, British, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- (transitive) To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.
- (intransitive) To be broadcast.
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- be broadcast
- make public
- expose to fresh air
noun
adj
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
adv
intj
verb
noun
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- Abolition; nullification.
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing the contents of something
noun
- (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
- (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
- (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
- (uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
- (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether.
- (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: The hypothetical substance permeating space, functioning as a medium for electromagnetic waves to propagate through, and which does not exert resistance to the movement of matter; its existence is incompatible with Einstein's theory of relativity; famously found to be undetectable by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment.
- (uncountable) Starting fluid.
- the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
- any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
- a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
verb
noun
- an empty area or space
- the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- (string theory) A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
verb
noun
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
adj
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
noun
noun
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- an empty area or space
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- the state of nonexistence
adj
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
verb
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
noun
noun
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
noun
noun
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
- (physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.
- (slang, vulgar) A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane.
- A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
- A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
- (colloquial) A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- (attributive) A circular life raft.
- (music, slang) A whole note.
- (Australia, Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
- a toroidal shape
verb
noun
- (uncountable, usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near-vacuum of outer space.
- (uncountable, loosely) The substance of the atmosphere on a planet other than Earth.
- (uncountable) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- The substance of the atmosphere seen as an agency of freshness.
- (historical, philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- (countable, uncountable) An air conditioning system.
- (uncountable, snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) The state of being briefly airborne during a jump.
- A feeling or sense.
- (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- (music) A melody or song, especially a solo; an aria.
- (uncountable) Publicity.
- (historical, medicine) A local environment or atmosphere, in the context of its effects on behavior, health, weather, etc.
- (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- medium for radio and television broadcasting
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- the region above the ground
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- travel via aircraft
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of are.
- (transitive) To make public (an opinion, concern, issue, secret, differences, etc); to present to public view (and sometimes discussion).
- (transitive) To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- (transitive, British, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- (transitive) To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.
- (intransitive) To be broadcast.
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- be broadcast
- make public
- expose to fresh air
noun
adj
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
adv
intj
verb
noun
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- Abolition; nullification.
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing the contents of something
noun
- (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
- (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
- (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
- (uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
- (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether.
- (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: The hypothetical substance permeating space, functioning as a medium for electromagnetic waves to propagate through, and which does not exert resistance to the movement of matter; its existence is incompatible with Einstein's theory of relativity; famously found to be undetectable by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment.
- (uncountable) Starting fluid.
- the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
- any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
- a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
verb
noun
- an empty area or space
- the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- (string theory) A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
verb
noun
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
adj
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
noun
verb
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- be inadequate or objectionable
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- take in, also metaphorically
- give suck to
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
noun
- the act of sucking
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
- (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
- (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
- (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
verb
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- move people from their homes or country
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- excrete or discharge from the body
- remove content from
noun
adj
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force