English-Finnish translations for empty

  • tyhjäSiellä on sairaala; se on tyhjä. The hospital is there; it is empty. Onko lasi puoliksi täysi vai puoliksi tyhjä? Is the glass half full or half empty? Kumppanuus on usein tyhjä käsite. Partnership is often an empty concept.
  • tyhjentääTämä on yhtä laillista kuin se, että Karhukopla tyhjentää Roope-sedän rahasäiliön. It is about as legal as the Beagle Boys deciding to empty Scrooge McDuck’s money bin. Nykyinen kalastuspolitiikkamme tyhjentää maailman valtameret, tuhoaa merenpohjat, hävittää ekosysteemit ja saa kalakannat romahtamaan. Today we have a fisheries policy which is emptying the world's oceans, ravaging seabeds, destroying ecosystems and causing fish stocks to collapse. Tietyt henkilöt tai kansat haluavat ilmeisesti tyhjentää valtion koulujen luokkasalit täyttääkseen turkkilaiset moskeijat. A certain person or certain people in Bulgaria are evidently interested in leaving the public schools' classrooms empty so as to fill the Turkish mosques.
  • autioSitä on kuvailtu autioituneeksi kaupungiksi. Se on autio, eristetty ja tyhjä. It has been described as a ghost town; it is desolate, isolated and empty.

Definition of empty

  • Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant
  • Containing no elements , opposed to being null (having no valid value
  • Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened
  • Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language
  • Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain
  • Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial
  • Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy
  • Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season
  • Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree
  • To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of
  • Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination
  • A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. can also be a crate etc.--

Synonyms

Examples

  • an empty purse; an empty jug; an empty stomach
  • empty words, or threats
  • empty offer
  • empty pleasures
  • empty dreams
  • empty brains; an empty coxcomb
  • Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.
  • an empty vine
  • to empty a well or a cistern
  • The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
  • Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River
  • Put the empties out to be recycled

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