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dutchland | null |
(dated) The region of Continental Europe populated by speakers of Low, Middle and High West Germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland.
*1902 , John Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America :
(obsolete) Germany.
* 1688', George Etherege, in a letter (written from ) to Middleton, printed in '''1982 in ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, and Other Stage Personnel in London , volume 8, page 170:
* 1838 , , The Anatomy of Melancholy'', sixteenth edition (printed from the authorized copy of 1651), ''Democritus Junior to the Reader , page 51:
*1886 , in The Education Outlook :
Holland; The Netherlands (the region inhabited by the Dutch).
* 1822-26 , Ebenezer Sibly, An Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology , part 3, page 995:
*1905 , in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London :
*1913 , Hugh Johnston, Travel films: being pen pictures of Europe :
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As a proper noun dutchland
is (dated) the region of continental europe populated by speakers of low, middle and high west germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the netherlands, flanders, germany, austria, and parts of switzerland.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dutchland
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The dwellers in those mountain regions, along with the greater part of the lowland population, we call by a Latin name "Germans," as if we had first learned about them by reading Cæsar's commentaries. One can see how the popular name "Dutchland " would naturally remain associated especially with that bit of shore with which our forefathers had most to do.
- I observe, in Turinge in Dutchland ,
- Before a few weeks ago I always held England for the greateste land of the whole world after Dutchland , and the Englanders for the best-lighted folk.
- Isle of Ameyland, Dutchland German ocean - 7 30
- Amsterdam, ditto, - Ditto - 3 00
- Marie Stope, the wiff of the said Arnold, borne in Dutchland , .... age of 1 yeares.
- The finest gallery of pictures in Dutchland is the Mesdag Museum, containing the art collections of the painter H. W. Mesdag.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)See also
* Germanlandnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.