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feminine | null |

As an adjective feminine

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

feminine

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
  • Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
  • Belonging to females; typically used by females.
  • Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
  • Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
  • * :
  • Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine .
  • * :
  • Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
  • * :
  • Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine , and subject to ease and delicacy.
  • (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
  • Synonyms

    * (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturing

    Antonyms

    * (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuter

    Derived terms

    * femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is feminine.
  • A woman.
  • * :
  • They guide the feminines toward the palace.
  • (grammar) The feminine gender.
  • (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
  • * Latham:
  • There are but few true feminines in English.

    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 ----