empting

Empting is the act or process of removing contents from a container, vessel, space, or system, effectively making it empty. In modern English, the ordinary gerund for this action is emptying; thus empting is rarely used as an independent term outside of specific stylistic or historical contexts.

Usage and variant forms: In standard usage, emptying is preferred; empting may appear in older texts, dialects, or as a typographical variant. In contemporary technical writing, empting is generally considered nonstandard, and phrases like emptying the queue or emptying the buffer are preferred.

Domains: In logistics and manufacturing, the process of removing liquids or solids from tanks or containers is described as emptying; in computing, the operation of clearing a data structure uses emptying. When empting occurs, it is typically as a historical form, a typographical error, or in very specialized corpora where it has a defined meaning, but not widely recognized as a separate term.

Other uses: Empting can be a surname or a place name in some jurisdictions, though not common. The word forms connect to the more general concept of emptiness and depletion.

Etymology: Formed from the verb empty with the -ing suffix; standard forms use emptying.