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Definition: Emptying |
EmptyingNoun1. The act of removing the contents of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emptying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: EmptyingSynonyms: evacuation (n), voidance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Emptying |
| English words defined with "emptying": Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, anterior facial vein ♦ basal vein, basivertebral vein, befoul ♦ Columbia, Columbia River, common facial vein ♦ defile, drain, drainage, Dry meter ♦ esophageal veins, Exinanition ♦ foul ♦ lax, loose ♦ maculate ♦ Nightman ♦ oesophageal veins ♦ pancreatic vein ♦ Strike of sugar ♦ tilter ♦ Vacuation, vena basalis, vena basivertebralis, vena facialis anterior, venae esophageae, venae pancreatica. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "emptying": BRIQUETTE OPERATOR ♦ car dumper, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, COKE DRAWER, HAND, controlled emptying, crin ♦ enclosed emptying ♦ Gallbladder Emptying, Gastric banding, Gastroparesis, gilson ♦ Jejuno-ileostomy, jilson ♦ manual emptying ♦ Oil on Troubled Waters ♦ Peritoneovenous Shunt, Postvagotomy Stasis ♦ silt box, STRAP-MACHINE OPERATOR, strap-making-machine operator ♦ TOP-PRECIPITATOR OPERATOR ♦ weekly storage, WET-AND-DRY-SUGAR-BIN OPERATOR. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Emptying a crab pot. Passing on knowledge of the bay from generation to generation. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Emptying cod end of trawl on deck to ready catch for sorting and sampling. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Emptying the bag on deck at the end of a trawl. The colorful lines at the end of the net are the tangles and keep the net from chaffing on the bottom. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The process of emptying quahogs into the rough waters of Narragansett Bay took hard work and a dedicated team of volunteers. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An aerial view of the Fish River emptying into Weeks Bay which in turn opens to Mobile Bay. View looking south southwest. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Emptying a small trawl onto the sorting table - Photo #1 of sequence. Operations on the NOAA Ship OREGON II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Emptying the trawl of its catch. Prince Albert is standing by watching in the upper center of the photograph. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 52, p. 67. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Emptying a bag of tangerines that have just been picked. Hernando County, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Emptying a ladle of molten steel at the foundry of the Farrell-Birmingham Corporation. Ansonia, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Electric Institute of Washington. Woman emptying vacuum bag. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Tributary" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "One of the many small tributary creeks emptying into the Licking River (photo taken in Licking County, Ohio, USA)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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 | Glug glug of the water cooler jug emptying into the crock. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Obesity also decreases gallbladder emptying. (references) | |
This antibiotic also improves stomach emptying. (references) | ||
This condition may cause discomfort and problems with emptying the bladder. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | A similar and equally advantageous effect will soon be produced to the south, through the whole extent of the States and territory which border on the waters emptying into the Mississippi and the Mobile. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Emptying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 52.96% of the time. "Emptying" is used about 270 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 (-ing form) | 52.96% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Noun (singular) | 43.33% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.59% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "emptying": controlled emptying ♦ enclosed emptying ♦ Gallbladder Emptying ♦ Gastric Emptying ♦ manual emptying ♦ open emptying. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "emptying": self-emptying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
delayed emptying gastric | 16 |
gastric emptying | 16 |
gastric emptying study | 15 |
emptying stomach | 6 |
emptying gastric test | 4 |
emptying gastric scan | 4 |
emptying | 4 |
rapid gastric emptying | 3 |
delayed emptying stomach | 3 |
bladder emptying | 2 |
bed emptying water | 2 |
bladder emptying incomplete | 2 |
bladder emptying not | 2 |
emptying slow stomach | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emptying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbrazje (defecation, depletion, discharge, dumping, evacuation, motion, pour), boshatisje (depletion, evacuation). (various references) | |
Arabic | تفريغ (discharge, drainage, evacuation, putting ashore). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опустяване, изсушаване (withering), изпразване (deflation, depletion, discharge, emission, voidance). (various references) | |
Chinese | 倒空 (Emptied, Empties). (various references) | |
Danish | toemning (coke pushing, ladling, oven pushing, pushing, to discharge), tømning, dræn (discharge, drain, eduction, filter, filter zone, oil change, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, sink, sink species, store), bundaftoemning (outflow), aftapning (discharge, drain, eduction, oil change). (various references) | |
Dutch | leegmaken (evacuation), lediging (excision, outflow, removal), ledigen (empty), het legen, aftappen (bottle, derive, drain, tap). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyhjennys (evacuation). (various references) | |
French | vidange, vidage. (various references) | |
German | leerung (collection), leerend (blanking, depleting), entleerung (deflation, drainage, evacuation, exhaustion, purgation), entleerend (deflating, evacuating, siphonal, siphoning, voiding), ausleerend. (various references) | |
Greek | κένωση (depletion, evacuation, voidance), εκκένωση (discharge, evacuation, vacation), εκκενώνω (blow through, deplete, evacuate, purge, vacate), άδειασμα (depletion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הרקה (abstersion, depletion, evacuation, voiding), רקון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | üresedés (vacancy). (various references) | |
Italian | svuotamento (excavation, extraction). (various references) | |
Korean | 비움 (Blanking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emptyingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | evacuação (evacuation), esvaziamento (deflation, emptyings, ullage), escoamento (flow, leakage, outflow, ullage), tomada de água (flood discharge, headrace, intake, intake point), descarga de cheias (flood discharge, intake), descarga (chase, exhaust, flush, outfall, outflow, shot, volley). (various references) | |
Romanian | golire (bleeding, depletion, drain, evacuation, exhaustion). (various references) | |
Spanish | evacuación de crecidas (flood discharge, intake), vaciado (molding, moulding, unpaged), toma de agua (flood discharge, intake, water connection, water supply). (various references) | |
Swedish | tömning (clearance, depletion, drain, vacation), behållartömning. (various references) | |
Turkish | tahliye (discharge, ejection, ejectment, evacuation, eviction, vacation, voidance), boşaltma (depletion, discharge, dismantlement, exhaustion, pouring, tipping, unloading, vacation, voidance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự vét sạch (clearing), sự dốc sạch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Emptying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Epting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emptying" (pronounced e"mptēing or e"mtēing) |
| 4 | -t ē i ng | partying, pitying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | accompanying, bullying, burying, carrying, copying, cozying, currying, dairying, dizzying, embodying, ferrying, hurrying, jockeying, jollying, journeying, levying, lobbying, marrying, monkeying, muddying, photocopying, quarrying, rallying, readying, remarrying, remedying, scurrying, studying, tallying, taxiing, varying, wearying, worrying. |
| 4 | -t ē i ng | partying, pitying. |
| 3 | -ē i ng | accompanying, bullying, burying, carrying, copying, cozying, currying, dairying, dizzying, embodying, ferrying, hurrying, jockeying, jollying, journeying, levying, lobbying, marrying, monkeying, muddying, photocopying, quarrying, rallying, readying, remarrying, remedying, scurrying, studying, tallying, taxiing, varying, wearying, worrying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-m-n-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: pigment, temping. | |
-2 letters: enmity, meting, pitmen, typing. | |
-3 letters: empty, eying, genip, gimpy, inept, meiny, mingy, minty, piety, pigmy, piney, tempi, tinge, tying. | |
-4 letters: emit, gent, gien, gimp, item, mien, mine, mint, mite, mity, nite, pein, pent, pine, ping, pint, piny, pity, pyin, temp, time, tine, ting, tiny, tyin, tyne, type, yeti, yipe. | |
-5 letters: eng, gem. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-m-n-p-t-y" | |
+2 letters: pigmentary, temptingly. | |
+5 letters: physostigmine. | |
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