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cham | null |

As a verb cham

is to sting, to prick.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

cham

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cham, from (etyl) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1840 , Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War?
  • But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter
  • An autocrat or dominant critic, especially .
  • * 1997': "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the '''Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
  • * 2007': The Tonsons would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great '''Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, ''London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3
  • Etymology 2

    See chap.

    Verb

    (chamm)
  • (obsolete) To chew.
  • * 1531 , William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
  • But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming , or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]

    Anagrams

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    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 ----