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buddy | null |

As a proper noun buddy

is a male nickname.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

buddy

English

Noun

(buddies)
  • A friend or casual acquaintance.
  • They have been buddies since they were in school.
  • A partner for a particular activity.
  • drinking buddies
  • An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know.
  • Hey, buddy , I think you dropped this.

    Synonyms

    * (friend or acquaintance): mate * (address to a stranger): mate * See also

    Derived terms

    * buddy store * buddy system * buddy up * Buddyroll * fuck buddy

    Verb

  • To assign a buddy, or partner.
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Philip Briggs & Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide citation
  • , passage=If you are being formally buddied , have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.}} English terms of address

    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 ----