void

English Online Dictionary. What means void‎? What does void mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪd
• Hyphenation: void

Etymology 1

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

Adjective

void (not comparable)

1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

   Synonyms: vacant, unfilled; see also Thesaurus:empty

   • c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman

     I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.

2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
3. (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.

   Synonyms: bereft of, destitute of; see also Thesaurus:lacking
4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

   Synonyms: pointless, useless; see also Thesaurus:futile
5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

   null and void
6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
7. (programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
8. (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.

Descendants

• → Welsh: foed

Translations

Noun

void (plural voids)

2. An empty space; a vacuum.
3. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
4. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
5. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
6. (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
7. (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.

8. An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
9. (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.

   Coordinate terms: singleton, doubleton

10. A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.

Synonyms

• ((engineering) collection of vacancies): pore
• ((engineering) pocket of vapour in fluid): bubble

Hyponyms

• ((astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies): Local Void

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)

1. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.

   Near-synonym: nullify
2. (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).

3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

Synonyms

• (make invalid or worthless): annul, cancel
• ((medicine) to empty): evacuate

Derived terms

• (medicine): postvoid

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of voidee.

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]

Anagrams

• Ovid, divo

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English void.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvoɪt̚]
• Hyphenation: vo‧id

Adjective

void

1. (law) void: of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification

Noun

void (plural void-void)

1. (architecture) void: An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade

   Synonym: ruang hampa

Further reading

• “void” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• voit

Verb

void

1. third-person singular indicative present of veoir