Void vs Waste - What's the difference?
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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:
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
A vast expanse of water.
A disused mine or part of one.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
Gradual loss or decay.
A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement
(legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
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*:SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad
Barren; desert.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 255:
*:For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste .
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
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Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
Unfortunate; disappointing. (rfex)
To devastate or destroy.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
* Bible, Numbers xiv. 33
* Robertson
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
* Gray
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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
* Bible, 1 Kings xvii. 14
(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
As verbs the difference between void and waste
is that void is (label) to make invalid or worthless while waste is .As an adjective void
is containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.As a noun void
is an empty space; a vacuum or void can be .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.
Anagrams
* ----waste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- That was a waste of time
- Her life seemed a waste
- The cage was littered with animal waste
Derived terms
* ameliorative waste * cotton waste * industrial waste * lay waste * nuclear waste * permissive waste * radioactive waste * rock waste * silk waste * toxic waste * trade waste * voluntary waste * wasteful * wasteless * waste of space * waste of time * waste pipe * wastyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
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Usage notes
Same meanings as wasted.Derived terms
* affirmative waste * ameliorative waste * go to waste * lay waste * lie waste * nonwasted * nonwasting * permissive waste * run to waste * unwasted * voluntary waste * waste pipe * wasteland * wasteness * wastrifeEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(wast)- Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted , / Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
- The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
- until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness
- Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation.'' 1909. Francis Galton, ''Memories of my life , p. 69.
- The barrel of meal shall not waste .