adj
Meaning 1
Having no validity; "null and void".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: invalid, nude, void
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, Received-Pronunciation: /nʌl/
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General-American: /nʌl/
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General-American: /nʊl/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /nɐl/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /nal/
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Northern-England: /nʊl/
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rhymes with -ʌl
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CMU ARPABET: N AH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Insignificant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: immaterial, paltry, vain, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, miserable, negligible, nothingburger, nondescript, null, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piddly, pissant, pissass, piteous, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, ticky-tacky, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, worthless, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Absent or non-existent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beingless, extinct, zilch, absent, inessential, inexistent, nonexistent, null
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Of the null set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adj
Meaning 6
Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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adj
Meaning 7
Neutral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, mechanical, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
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name
Meaning 8
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 11
Something that has no force or meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 12
The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
One of the beads in nulled work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 15
The null hypothesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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verb
Meaning 16
To nullify; to annul.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
Meaning 17
To return to the null position, setting, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 18
To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 19
To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 20
lacking any legal or binding force
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- null and void
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: void
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 21
a quantity of no importance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
- reduced to nil all the work we had done
- we racked up a pathetic goose egg
- it was all for naught
- I didn't hear zilch about it
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: relative quantity
Narrower terms: nihil, bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: nulo — Translations
- Bulgarian: празно множество (prazno množestvo) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Bulgarian: нулева хипотеза (nuleva hipoteza) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Bulgarian: празен указател (prazen ukazatel) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Bulgarian: празно поле — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Chinese Mandarin: 空值 (kōngzhí) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Finnish: tyhjä — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Japanese: 無 (mu) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Japanese: 無価値 (mukachi) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Japanese: 空白 (kūhaku) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Japanese: ゼロ (zero) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Japanese: ヌル (nuru) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Russian: нуль (nulʹ) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Russian: пусто́е по́ле (pustóje póle) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Russian: пусто́й указа́тель (pustój ukazátelʹ) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Russian: пусто́е значе́ние (pustóje značénije) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Russian: нулл (null) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Russian: налл (nall) — a non-existent or empty value or set of values
- Vietnamese: rỗng — a non-existent or empty value or set of values