单词 | void |
释义 | void —voidness, n. /voyd/, adj. 1. Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable. 2. useless; ineffectual; vain. 3. devoid; destitute (usually fol. by of): a life void of meaning. 4. without contents; empty. 5. without an incumbent, as an office. 6. Math. (of a set) empty. 7. (in cards) having no cards in a suit. n. 8. an empty space; emptiness: He disappeared into the void. 9. something experienced as a loss or privation: His death left a great void in her life. 10. a gap or opening, as in a wall. 11. a vacancy; vacuum. 12. Typography. counter3 (def. 10). 13. (in cards) lack of cards in a suit: a void in clubs. v.t. 14. to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: to void a check. 15. to empty; discharge; evacuate: to void excrement. 16. to clear or empty (often fol. by of): to void a chamber of occupants. 17. Archaic. to depart from; vacate. v.i. 18. to defecate or urinate. [1250-1300; (adj.) ME voide < AF, OF < VL *vocita, fem. of *vocitus, dissimilated var. of L vocivus, itself var. of vac(i)vus empty; see VACUUM; (v.) ME voiden < AF voider, OF < VL *vocitare, deriv. of *vocitus; (n.) deriv. of the adj.] Syn. 3, 4. See empty. 5. vacant, unoccupied. 8. vacuum. |
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