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behove | null |

As a verb behove

is to suit; to befit.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

behove

English

Alternative forms

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Verb

(behov)
  • To suit; to befit.
  • * 1803 , , Letter to Benjamin Rush April 21.
  • It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
  • * 1936 , , More Poems , II., lines 11-12:
  • No fire-faced prophet brought me word
    Which way behoved me go.
  • * 2001 January 16, , in the House of Commons Hansard Debates for 16 Jan 2001 (pt 23),
  • It behoves the Government to take note of that.
  • * 2003 November 3, , “Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence”, ] [[wikipedia:The Guardian, The Guardian] ,
  • Nor does it behove western commentators whose countries are occupying Iraq to lay down conditions for those opposing it.

    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 ----