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depose | null |

As a verb depose

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

depose

English

Verb

(depos)
  • (literally) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • * Woodword
  • additional mud deposed upon it
  • To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
  • A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
  • * Prynne
  • a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
  • (legal) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  • (legal) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
  • After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Depose him in the justice of his cause.
  • To take or swear an oath.
  • To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

    Synonyms

    * declare

    Antonyms

    * restore

    Derived terms

    * deposable * deposal

    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 ----