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depreciate | null |

As a verb depreciate

is to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

depreciate

English

Verb

(depreciat)
  • To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
  • * (rfdate) Cudworth
  • some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
  • * (rfdate) Burke
  • To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
  • To decline in value over time.
  • To belittle.
  • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with deprecate , which means 'to disapprove of'. The meaning of deprecate'' has lately been encroaching on ''depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.

    Synonyms

    * (reduce in value over time) * (belittle) do down

    Antonyms

    * (reduce in value over time) appreciate * (belittle) aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)

    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 ----