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carol | null |

As a proper noun carol

is , popular in the middle of the 20th century or carol can be .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

carol

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A round dance accompanied by singing.
  • A song of joy.
  • * Dryden
  • the costly feast, the carol , and the dance
  • * 1908 ,
  • The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout.
  • A religious song or ballad of joy.
  • They sang a Christmas carol .
  • * Keble
  • In the darkness sing your carol of high praise.
  • * Longfellow
  • I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carol play.

    Verb

  • To sing in a joyful manner.
  • * Spenser
  • carol of love's high praise
  • * Beattie
  • The gray linnets carol from the hill.
  • To sing carols, especially Christmas carols in a group.
  • To praise or celebrate in song.
  • * Milton
  • The shepherds at their festivals / Carol her goodness.
  • To sing (a song) cheerfully.
  • * Prior
  • Hovering swans carol sounds harmonious.

    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 ----