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(backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not taken a single stone; (also, rarely, backgammon, the game itself).
(nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
(dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
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* 1911 :
To deceive, to lie plausibly.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
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 gammon
is (ireland) the language of the irish travelling community.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gammon
English
(wikipedia gammon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) gambon (compare modern French .Etymology 2
Probably a special use of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Perhaps related to the first etymology, with reference to tying up a ham.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
Perhaps a special use of the word from etymology 2.Noun
(en noun)- He swore that all other religions were gammon ,
And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.
Verb
(en verb)null
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.