different between naught vs void

English

Alternative forms

• nought

Etymology

From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht, equivalent to "no wight". Doublet of nought.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nôt, IPA^(key): /n??t/
• (US): enPR: nôt, IPA^(key): /n?t/
• (cot–caught merger): enPR: nät, IPA^(key): /n?t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: not (in accents with the cot-caught merger), knot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Pronoun

naught

1. (archaic) Nothing.

   Naught can come of this, you mark my words.

Translations

Noun

naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts)

1. (archaic) Nothingness.
2. (chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought

Derived terms

• naughty

Translations

Numeral

naught

1. (chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought

See also

• aught
• naw
• negative
• no
• noot
• not
• nought
• nowt
• ought
• zip

References

• naught in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle English

Pronoun

naught

1. Alternative form of nought

Adverb

naught

1. Alternative form of nought

Adjective

naught

1. Alternative form of nought

Noun

naught

1. Alternative form of nought

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)

1. 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.

2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     divers great offices that had been long void

3. Being without; destitute; devoid.

   • He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.

4. 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.

5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

   null and void

6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
7. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.

Translations

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. 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.
2. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
3. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
4. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
5. (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)

1. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
   • after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken

2. (transitive, medicine) To empty.

3. 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

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
5. (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)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• Ovid, divo

Middle French

Alternative forms

• voit

Verb

void

1. third-person singular indicative present of veoir