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dayee | null |

As nouns the difference between dayee and null

is that dayee is or dayee can be (rare|india) midwife while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an interjection dayee

is (australia|dated) an ellipsis of good day.

dayee

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

* day-ee

Noun

(-)
  • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day.
  • * 1955 , , Cake in the Hat Box , page 4,
  • “Good day ?Un!” he said to the yardman.
    Day-ee', Jasper!” replied 'Un. “' Day-ee , Silas! How?s things?”
    Synonyms
    * g'day

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, India) midwife
  • * 1855 , North-Western Provinces, India, Selections from the Records of Government , Volume 3, page 184,
  • The custom now actually and thoroughly established, and daily practised in these villages, is the following : — On the occasion of a birth in a Thakoor family, the village dayee is summoned, and after her services have been completed, she reports the occurrence to her relative, the bullahur ; he informs the chowkeedar, who causes the necessary entry to be made in the putwaree?s diary, and, if the birth be of a girl, reports the event to the thannah.

    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 ----