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basil | null |

As an acronym basil

is biphasic acid scavenging]] [[utilise|utilising ionic liquids.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

basil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) basile, from .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A plant (Ocimum basilicum ).
  • The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
  • Any other species in the genus Ocimum .
  • Synonyms
    * (plant) albahaca, , sweet basil
    Derived terms
    * Asian basil * basil thyme * holy basil * Lao basil * lemon basil * sweet basil * Thai basil * wild basil

    Etymology 2

    Variant of bezel?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.
  • Verb

  • To grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.
  • (Moxon)
    Synonyms
    * bevel, sharpen

    Etymology 3

    Corrupted from (etyl) basan, (etyl) basane, (lena) basanium, from (etyl), properly "lining".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
  • Synonyms
    * basan, bazil (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----