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Definition: EMPTIES |
EMPTIESPlural1. Of Empty |
Date "EMPTIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Lyrics | I'm looking at ghosts and empties ("Graceland"; performing artist: Paul Simon) | |
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 | This schematic illustration shows how a human therapeutic gene is inserted into a deactivated mouse retrovirus. The retrovirus then attaches to and empties its genetic material into a patient's cell (in the laboratory). The therapeutic human gene is integrated into the patient's DNA and replaces the "defective" gene, in the treatment for ADA. See artwork: GR-10.Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |  | The Ganges River forms an extensive delta where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. The delta is largely covered with a swamp forest known as the Sunderbans, which is home to the Royal Bengal Tiger.Credit: NASA. |
 | Part of Cayo del Oso Creek which empties into Corpus Christi Bay.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Art Ganz, RI DEM, empties a rake filled with quahogs to test for contaminants.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Moran Tunnel Mine adit empties into Champagne CreekpH of water is 2.5 to 3.5Water is blue-green from copper sulfateIdaho Falls Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District.Credit: Tim Fuller. |  | Moran Tunnel Mine adit empties into Champagne CreekpH of water is 2.5 to 3.5Water is blue-green from copper sulfateIdaho Falls Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District.Credit: Tim Fuller. |
 | Moran Tunnel Mine adit empties into Champagne CreekpH of water is 2.5 to 3.5Water is blue-green from copper sulfateIdaho Falls Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District.Credit: Tim Fuller. | ||
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon | Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. |
Sir John A. Macdonald | When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He who empties his glass empties his heart. |
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Health | Pain may change in intensity as the bladder fills with urine or as it empties. (references) | |
A baby's bladder fills to a set point, then automatically contracts and empties. (references) | ||
The test can also determine whether the flow of urine is normal when the bladder empties. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EMPTIES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 62.16% of the time. "EMPTIES" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 62.16% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (plural) | 37.84% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "EMPTIES": empties loop. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "EMPTIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '空 (Emptied, Emptying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tomt tog (train of empties, train of empty stock), spor til opstilling af tomme vogne (empties siding), distrikts- eller straekningssikring i blokafsnit for at forhindre sidevaerts sammenstoed med de toemte kulvognes lokomotiver (blocks to protect the section against any slanting collision with the empties locomotive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | een blokstelsel ter beveiliging van de sectie tegen zijdelingse aanrijding door de lokomotief van de lege wagens (blocks to protect the section against any slanting collision with the empties locomotive), terugaande ledige verpakking (returned empties, returned(empty)packing), terugaande ledige emballage (returned empties, returned(empty)packing), spoor voor lege wagens (empties siding), retouremballage (returned empties, returned(empty)packing), opstelspoor voor lege wagens (empties siding), ledigmaterieeltrein (train of empties, train of empty stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | joki purkautuu mereen (the river empties into the sea), joki laskee mereen (the river empties into the sea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | emballage(vides)en retour (returned empties), voie de concentration des vides (empties siding), train de matériel vide (train of empties, train of empty stock), contour des vides (empties loop), blocs pour protéger le canton ou la section contre une prise en écharpe par la locomotive des vides (blocks to protect the section against any slanting collision with the empties locomotive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leert (depletes), entleert (deflates, evacuates, voids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κενή αμαξοστοιχία (train of empties, train of empty stock), γραμμή συγκέντρωσης των κενών (empties siding), επιστρεφόμενη συσκευασία (returned empties, returned(empty)packing), αμαξοστοιχία με κενά βαγόνια (train of empties, train of empty stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | göngyöleg (envelope, furl, roll, swathing, torse, web, wrapper, wrapping), üres ládák, üres kosarak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | treno di vuoti (train of empties, train of empty stock), treno di materiale vuoto (train of empties, train of empty stock), blocchi di sicurezza per proteggere il tratto o la sezione di galleria contro una collisione di traverso con la locomotiva dei vuoti (blocks to protect the section against any slanting collision with the empties locomotive), binario di raccolta di materiale vuoto (empties siding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비운다. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | siyn folmey, boteilyn folmey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emptiesay via de concentração de vazios (empties siding), comboio vazio (train of empties, train of empty stock), comboio em marcha em vazio (train of empties, train of empty stock). (various references) порожняя тара (empty). (various references) praznine. (various references) envases (containers, litter). (various references) tömmer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "EMPTIES": emptiest. (additional references) | |
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"EMPTIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Emplins, emptae, empti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EMPTIES" (pronounced e"mptēz or e"mtēz) |
| 3 | -t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, amnesties, animosities, annuities, Antes, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, beauties, booties, bounties, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, casualties, causalities, cavities, celebrities, certainties, charities, christies, cities, committees, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, counties, cruelties, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, diabetes, difficulties, disabilities, disability, disparities, ditties, divinities, duties, dynasties, eccentricities, eighties, enmities, entities, entreaties, equities, extremities, facilities, faculties, fatalities, fatties, festivities, fidelities, fifties, formalities, forties, frailties, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, lefties, legalities, liabilities, liberties, liquidities, localities, loyalties, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, Montes, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, nineties, novelties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, panties, parities, parties, patties, peculiarities, penalties, personalities, pieties, possibilities, pretties, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, properties, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, royalties, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, seventies, shanties, similarities, sixties, societies, sororities, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, technicalities, thirties, tonalities, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vigilantes, vulnerabilities, warranties, zlotys. |
| 3 | -t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, amnesties, animosities, annuities, Antes, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, beauties, booties, bounties, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, casualties, causalities, cavities, celebrities, certainties, charities, christies, cities, committees, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, counties, cruelties, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, diabetes, difficulties, disabilities, disability, disparities, ditties, divinities, duties, dynasties, eccentricities, eighties, enmities, entities, entreaties, equities, extremities, facilities, faculties, fatalities, fatties, festivities, fidelities, fifties, formalities, forties, frailties, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, lefties, legalities, liabilities, liberties, liquidities, localities, loyalties, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, Montes, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, nineties, novelties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, panties, parities, parties, patties, peculiarities, penalties, personalities, pieties, possibilities, pretties, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, properties, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, royalties, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, seventies, shanties, similarities, sixties, societies, sororities, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, technicalities, thirties, tonalities, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vigilantes, vulnerabilities, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: septime. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: emits, items, meets, metes, metis, mites, peise, piste, smite, spite, steep, stime, stipe, teems, tempi, temps, times. | |
-3 letters: emes, emit, imps, item, meet, mete, mise, mist, mite, pees, pest, pets, pies, pits, seem, seep, seme, semi, sept, simp, sipe, site, smit, spit, stem, step, teem, tees, temp, ties, time, tips. | |
-4 letters: eme, ems, imp, ism, its, met, mis, pee, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, psi, see, sei, set, sim, sip, sit, tee, tie, tip, tis. | |
-5 letters: em, es, et, is, it, me, mi, pe, pi, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: emptiers, emptiest, epistome, epitomes, hempiest, pipestem, septimes. | |
+2 letters: distemper, empathies, empathise, emptiness, epistemic, epistomes, epitomise, euphemist, expertism, hemipters, impetuses, impieties, pediments, peristome, pipestems, temporise. | |
+3 letters: distempers, empathised, empathises, empathizes, epitomised, epitomises, epitomizes, equipments, euphemists, exemptions, expertisms, imperfects, impetrates, implements, impotences, imprecates, mephitises, multispeed, peacetimes, pegmatites, perimeters, periosteum, peristomes, permittees, permitters, phlegmiest, premoisten, presentism, pretermits, septicemia, septicemic, spermaceti, spirometer, suppertime, tempesting, temporised, temporises, temporizes, timepieces, trumperies. | |
+4 letters: champerties, computerise, despisement, despoilment, dissepiment, distempered, emancipates, emptinesses, epitheliums, esemplastic, euphemistic, experiments, extemporise, hemipterans, hemipterous, idempotents, impalements, impatiences, impatienses, impediments, imperatives, impersonate, impotencies, impregnates, impressment, masterpiece, misreported, mouthpieces, multiplexes, omnipresent, optometries, peppermints, peritoneums, permeations, permethrins, piezometers, planimeters, preemptions, premoistens, presentisms, presumptive, pyrometries, redemptions, semiprivate, sempiternal, septicemias, spermacetis, spirometers, suppertimes, sympetalies, temporaries, temporizers, thermopiles, timekeepers, timepleaser. | |
+5 letters: amphetamines, antependiums, appraisement, compensative, competencies, complexities, computerised, computerises, computerizes, despisements, despoilments, displacement, dissepiments, distemperate, distempering, empoisonment, episiotomies, epistemology, epitheliomas, extemporised, extemporises, extemporizes, hemoproteins, homeopathies, impeachments, impenitences, imperilments, impersonated, impersonates, impingements, implementers, implementors, impoliteness, impressments, improvements, incompetents, lumpectomies, madreporites, mantelpieces, masterpieces, meanspirited, metropolises, mifepristone, misinterpret, misplacement, misrepresent, mucopeptides, multiplexers, multispecies, myelopathies, omnipotences, parametrizes, pentamidines, phlebotomies, photometries, planetesimal, polarimeters, postmedieval, predicaments, predominates, premeditates, premoistened, prenominates, presentiment, pteridosperm, reequipments, respirometer, respirometry, semipalmated, semiparasite, sempiternity, slipstreamed, spirometries, stepfamilies, supereminent, temporalizes, thermophiles, timekeepings, timepleasers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4D 50 54 49 45 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M P T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004D 0050 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39475054433953 |
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