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adjective
1.
Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
2.
useless; ineffectual; vain.
3.
devoid; destitute (usually followed by of): a life void of meaning.
4.
without contents; empty.
5.
EXPANDwithout an incumbent, as an office.
noun
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.
EXPANDTypography. counter3 (def. 10).
13.
COLLAPSE(in cards) lack of cards in a suit: a void in clubs.
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Voids
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used with object)
14.
to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: to void a check.
15.
to empty; discharge; evacuate: to void excrement.
16.
to clear or empty (often followed by of): to void a chamber of occupants.
17.
Archaic. to depart from; vacate.
verb (used without object)
18.
to defecate or urinate.
Origin:
1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English voide < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) Middle English voiden < Anglo-French voider, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun) derivative of the adj.
1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English voide < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) Middle English voiden < Anglo-French voider, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun) derivative of the adj.
Related forms
void·ness, noun
non·void, adjective, noun
pre·void, verb (used with object)
un·void, adjective
un·void·ness, noun
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Word Origin & History
void
late 13c., "unoccupied, vacant," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. voide "empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste," from L. vocivus "unoccupied, vacant," related to vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Meaning "lacking or wanting" (something) is recorded from early 15c. Meaning "legally invalid"
EXPANDis attested from mid-15c. Noun sense of "empty space, vacuum" is from 1727. The verb meaning "to clear" (some place, of something) is first recorded c.1300; meaning "to deprive (something) of legal validity" is attested from early 14c.
COLLAPSE
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Medical Dictionary
void (void)
v. void·ed, void·ing, voids
To excrete body wastes. adj.
Containing no matter; empty.
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