Absent vs Void - What's the difference?
absent | void |
(not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), All’s Well That Ends Well, II-iii
(not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
(sometimes, comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
* 1746-1747 , Chesterfield, Letters to his Son
(legal) In the absence of; without.
* 1919 , State vs. Britt, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division 2, in The Southwestern Reporter , page 427
* 2011 , David Elstein, letter, London Review of Books , XXXIII.15:
(transitive, now, reflexive) Keep away; stay away; go away.
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* 1701-1703 , , "Remarks on Italy"
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(obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
(rare) Leave.
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
* Bible, Genesis i. 2
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
* Camden
Being without; destitute; devoid.
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 12
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
* Bible, Isa. lv. 11
* Bible, Jer. xix. 7
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
* Alexander Pope
(computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
* 2005 , Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
* 2007 , Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
An empty space; a vacuum.
* Alexander Pope
(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
(label) To make invalid or worthless.
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* (1609-1674)
*:It was become a practiceto void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
*(w) (1643-1715)
*:after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
To empty.
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To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
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*:You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)
*:With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
*:a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
To withdraw, depart.
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*:BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
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*:If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 68:
As adjectives the difference between absent and void
is that absent is (not comparable) being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing while void is containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.As nouns the difference between absent and void
is that absent is (obsolete) absentee; a person who is away on occasion while void is an empty space; a vacuum or void can be .As verbs the difference between absent and void
is that absent is (transitive|now|reflexive) keep away; stay away; go away while void is (label) to make invalid or worthless.As a preposition absent
is (legal) in the absence of; without .absent
English
Alternative forms
*Etymology 1
* From (etyl) absent, (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- Expecting absent friends.
- The part was rudimental or absent .
- What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
Antonyms
* presentPreposition
(English prepositions)- If the accused refuse upon demand to pay money or deliver property (absent any excuse or excusing circumstance) which came into his hands as a bailee, such refusal might well constitute some evidence of conversion, with the requisite fraudulent intent required by the statute.
- the Princess Caroline case [...] established that – absent a measurable ‘public interest’ in publication – she was safe from being photographed while out shopping.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) absenter, from .Verb
(en verb)- Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more;
- If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.
- This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Anagrams
*void
English
(wikipedia void)Etymology 1
From (etyl) vuit'', ''voide (modern vide).Adjective
(-)- The earth was without form, and void .
- I'll get me to a place more void .
- I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
- divers great offices that had been long void
- He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
- [My word] shall not return to me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- null and void
- idol, void and vain
- In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
- The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
Noun
(en noun)- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Synonyms
* pore * bubbleVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (make invalid or worthless) annul, cancel * evacuateEtymology 2
Alteration of (voidee).Noun
(en noun)- Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void ’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.