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aboard | null |

As an adverb aboard

is on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.

As a preposition aboard

is on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.

As a noun null is

a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

aboard

English

Adverb

(-)
  • On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
  • We all climbed aboard .
  • On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
  • To sling a saddle aboard .
  • (baseball) On base.
  • He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
  • Into a team, group, or company.
  • The office manager welcomed him aboard .
  • (nautical) Alongside.
  • The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
    to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= , url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-british-longitude-act-reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
    We all went aboard the ship.
  • Onto a horse.
  • (obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
  • * 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
  • Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -

    Derived terms

    (definitions belong in separate entries) Nautical : * fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. * haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. * keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. * , to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----