make+empty

  • 31Empty the bucket on — make scandalous accusations or revelations about (someone); criticise strongly …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 32Empty sum — Not to be confused with Zero sum. In mathematics, an empty sum, or nullary sum, is a summation involving no terms at all. The value of any empty sum of numbers is conventionally taken to be zero. For summations defined in terms of addition of… …

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  • 33empty vessels make the most sound — Foolish or witless persons are the most talkative or noisy. Vessel here means a receptacle, as a drinking vessel. a 1430 J. LYDGATE Pilgrimage of Man (EETS) 1. 15933 A voyde vessel..maketh outward a gret soun, Mor than..what yt was ful. 1547 W.… …

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  • 34make — 1 verb past tense and past participle made, PRODUCE STH 1 (T) to produce something by working: I m going to make a cake for Sam s birthday. | Did you make that dress yourself? | a car made in Japan | They re making a documentary about the Civil… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 35Empty Places — Infobox Television episode Title=Empty Places Series=Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season=7 Episode=19 Airdate=April 29 2003 Production=7ABB19 Writer=Drew Z. Greenberg Director=James A. Contner Guests=Anthony Stewart Head (Giles) Eliza Dushku (Faith)… …

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  • 36empty — I UK [ˈemptɪ] / US adjective Word forms empty : adjective empty comparative emptier superlative emptiest *** 1) containing nothing an empty jar His pockets were empty. an empty space: There were no empty spaces in the car park. a) containing no… …

    English dictionary

  • 37empty — emp|ty1 [ empti ] adjective *** 1. ) containing nothing: an empty jar His pockets were empty. an empty space: There were no empty spaces in the parking lot. a ) containing no people: an empty room stand empty: Emma s apartment stood empty for six …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 38Empty string — In computer science and formal language theory, the empty string (or null string)[1] is the unique string of length zero. It is denoted with λ or sometimes Λ or ε. The empty string is distinct from a null reference in that in an object oriented… …

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  • 39Empty Nest (TV series) — infobox television show name = Empty Nest caption = format = Sitcom runtime = 25 minutes creator = Susan Harris starring = Richard Mulligan Kristy McNichol Dinah Manoff David Leisure Park Overall Paul Provenza Lisa Rieffel Marsha Warfield Estelle …

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  • 40empty — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} verb 1 make sth empty ADVERB ▪ completely ▪ The cupboards had all been completely emptied. ▪ out ▪ We emptied out the tank. PREPOSITION …

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