emptyとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmp.tɪ/, /ˈɛm.tɪ/
• 韻: -ɛmptɪ, -ɛmtɪ
• ハイフネーション: emp‧ty

形容詞

empty (comparative emptier, superlative emptiest)

A man sitting in an empty room (1)

1. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

   Synonyms: unoccupied, clear, (廃れた用法) leer, (まれに 方言) toom, clean

   Antonym: full

   an empty purse

   an empty jug

   an empty stomach

   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 690663892; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 103:

     […] something in the little man's appearance suggested that he would be sufficiently attentive to his own comfort to choose the emptiest table.

   • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     United's stature is such that one result must not bring the immediate announcement of a shift in the balance of power in Manchester - but the swathes of empty seats around Old Trafford and the wave of attacks pouring towards David de Gea's goal in the second half emphasised that City quite simply have greater firepower and talent in their squad at present.

2. (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, または set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).

   Antonym: non-empty

3. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii], page 144:

     And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, / Right ioyfull of your reformation.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 614-617:

     For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd / Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, / Yet empty of all good wherein consists / Womans domestic honour and chief praise;

4. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     I hope our Ladies treaſure and our owne,
     May ſerue for ranſome to our liberties:
     Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe,
     That we may trauell into Siria, […]

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene vi], page 89:

     I hope it remaines not vnkindly with your Lordſhip, that I return'd you an empty Meſſenger.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 3:21:

     And I will giue this people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to passe that when ye goe, ye shall not goe empty:

5. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.

   empty words, or threats

   empty offer

   empty promises

   • 1697, Colley Cibber, Woman's Wit, Act V, page 190, [2]

     […] words are but empty thanks; my future conduct best will speak my gratitude.

6. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.

   empty pleasures

   • 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, lines 429-430:

     Ev'n I more sweetly pass my careless days, / Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise;

7. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.

   empty dreams

8. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.

   empty brains

   an empty coxcomb

   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii], page 203, column 2:

     Art thou thus bolden'd man by thy diſtres? / Or elſe a rude deſpiſer of good manners, / That in ciuility thou ſeem'ſt ſo emptie?

9. (of some female animals, especially cows かつ sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.

   Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.

10. (obsolete, of a plant または tree) Producing nothing; unfruitful.

    an empty vine

    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 41:27:

      […] and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind […]

派生語

動詞

empty (三人称単数 現在形 empties, 現在分詞 emptying, 過去形および過去分詞形 emptied)

1. (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.

   to empty a well or a cistern

   The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ecclesiastes 11:3:

     If the clouds be full of raine, they emptie themselues vpon the earth […]

2. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

   Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.

   • 1899, Horace White, trans., Appian:

     Of these the Rhine empties into the Northern ocean and the Danube into the Euxine.

反意語

• fill

派生語

• empty the clip
• empty the tank

名詞

empty (複数形 empties)

1. (usually 複数形) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

   Put the empties out to be recycled.

   • 2019 October, Steve Stubbs, photo caption, “'60' on the stone”, in Modern Railways, page 20:

     A number of locomotives have been drafted into the area to cover the traction shortfall, including two Class 60s: here No 60039 accelerates away from Eastleigh on the Chandlers Ford branch with the lunchtime Fareham to Whatley quarry empties [empty wagons] on 20 August 2019.

派生語

• run on empty

参考

• dead soldier

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