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brittany | null |
A region in north-west France.
* 1595 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 3 , First Folio 1623, Act II, Scene VI:
*:First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
(obsolete, chiefly, poetic) The British Isles.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
*:The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
* 1990 (Alice Munro), Friend of My Youth , ISBN 0679729577, page 102:
* 1999 (Andrew Pyper), Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As a proper noun brittany
is a region in north-west france.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.brittany
English
Alternative forms
* (female given name) Britney, BrittneyProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany ," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
- Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany'' now an unscrupulous ''Burke'', the generous ''Pamela'' a refitted, urbanized ''Parker .
See also
*null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.