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dimple
English
Etymology
From Middle English dympull, likely from Proto-Germanic *dumpila- (“sink-hole, dimple”), from Proto-Germanic *dumpa- (“hole, hollow, pit”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb- (“deep, hollow”), equivalent to dialectal dump (“deep hole or pool”) +? -le (diminutive suffix). Akin to Old High German tumphilo (“pool”) (whence German Tümpel) and Old English dyppan (“to dip”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?mp?l/
- Rhymes: -?mp?l
Noun
dimple (plural dimples)
- A small depression or indentation in a surface.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons
- The garden pool's dark surface […] breaks into dimples small and bright.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons
- Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.
Synonyms
- (depression in a surface): dent
Translations
Verb
dimple (third-person singular simple present dimples, present participle dimpling, simple past and past participle dimpled)
- (transitive) To create a dimple in.
- (intransitive) To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.
- To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
- And smiling eddies dimpled o'er the main.
Synonyms
- (create a dimple in): dent, mar
Translations
Anagrams
- impled, limped
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void
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??d/
- Rhymes: -??d
- Hyphenation: void
Etymology 1
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from a Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to Latin vacuus (“empty”).
Adjective
void (not comparable)
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- The earth was without form, and void.
- 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.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- divers great offices that had been long void
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- null and void
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
Translations
Noun
void (plural voids)
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- (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.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
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
Translations
Verb
void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
- (transitive, medicine) To empty.
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
- 1612, John Webster, The White Devil
- With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
- a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance
- a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
- (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
- If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
Synonyms
- (make invalid or worthless): annul, cancel
- ((medicine) to empty): evacuate
Translations
Etymology 2
Alteration of voidee.
Noun
void (plural voids)
- (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
- 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.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
Anagrams
- Ovid, divo
Middle French
Alternative forms
- voit
Verb
void
- third-person singular indicative present of veoir
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