different between furrow vs void
furrow
English
Etymology
From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *per?- (“to dig”).
Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar?šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit ?????? (pár??na, “chasm”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??o?/, /?f?o?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
furrow (plural furrows)
- A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
- A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Derived terms
- furrowless
- furrowlike
- furrowy
Translations
Verb
furrow (third-person singular simple present furrows, present participle furrowing, simple past and past participle furrowed)
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- Synonym: frown
Derived terms
- furrower
- furrowing
- unfurrow
- unfurrowed
Translations
See also
- plough a lonely furrow
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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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