void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum
(noun) an empty area or space; “the huge desert voids”; “the emptiness of outer space”; “without their support he’ll be ruling in a vacuum”
vacancy
(noun) being unoccupied
Source: WordNet® 3.1
vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)
An unoccupied position or job.
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Empty space.
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
Source: Wiktionary
Va"can*cy, n.; pl. Vacancies. Etym: [Cf. F. vacance.]
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. Sir H. Wotton.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically: -- (a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy Shak.
(b) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts. (c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden.
(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 November 2024
(noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; “he gave the suspect a quick frisk”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
