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edward | null |

As a proper noun edward

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

edward

English

(wikipedia Edward)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1605 William Camden: Remains Concerning Britain . John Russell Smith, 1870. p.77:
  • The Christian humility of King Edward the Confessour brought such credit to this name, that since that time it hath been most usual in all estates.
  • * 1765 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy , Book IV, Chapter 8:
  • Heaven is my witness! that in the warmest transport of my wishes for the prosperity of my child, I never once wished to crown his head with more glory and honour than what George or Edward would have spread around it.
  • * 1994 , The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays , Counterpoint Press 2004, ISBN 1582433135, page 169:
  • There's a world of difference between the name Edward , which sounds rather regal and stuffy (Edwardian) and the name Eddie, which sounds like a guy on the bus.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, Ed , Eddie , Eddy , Ned , Ted , Teddie , Teddy}}

    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 ----