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gouge | null |

As a verb gouge

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

gouge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
  • The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
  • A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
  • * 1823 , ,
  • The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
  • A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
  • An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
  • (Knight)
  • (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
  • (Raymond)
  • (slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
  • (slang) An impostor; a cheat.
  • Verb

    (goug)
  • To make a mark or hole by scooping.
  • Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  • * 1930 , ,
  • He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
  • To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
  • They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.

    Synonyms

    * (make a mark or hole by scooping) engrave * (charge an unreasonable price) swindle

    Derived terms

    * gouge out * price gouging * regouge

    References

    * English transitive verbs ----

    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 ----