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herefor | null |
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) For (l): (l) or in (l) of this, with a (l) to this.
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 an adverb herefor
is (obsolete|outside|scotland) for (l): (l) or in (l) of this, with a (l) to this.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.herefor
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
(-)References
* “† Herefor, -fore, adv.'']” listed on page 238 of volume V (H–K), § i (H) of '''' [1st ed., 1901]''c'' '''1200''' ''Vices & Virtues'' 5 Hierfore ic am neðer and unmihti. ''c'' '''1330''' R. Brunne ''Chron.'' (1810) 149 Herfor kyng Richard wrathes him. '''1380''' ''Lay Folks Catech.'' (Lamb. MS.) 66 Here-fore þe gospel of Mathew seys þat crist bad vs pray thus. '''1480''' Caxton ''Chron. Eng.'' li. 35 Saynt albone suffred his martirdome before that saynt edmond was martryd and herfor saynt albone is callyd the fyrst martir of Englond. '''1581''' Pettie ''Guazzo’s Civ. Conv.'' i. (1586) 2, I will not heerefore commende you so much. ''c'' '''1620''' A. Hume ''Brit. Tongue'' (1865) 13 Heerfoer, for distinctiones of both sound and symbol, I wald commend the symbol and name of i and u to the voual sound. '''1697 Dallas ''Stiles i. 84 Herefore I beseech your Lordships, that ye would..ordain the said Director..to grant..Precepts. * “
† Herefor, -fore,''' ''adv.'' ''Obs.'' exc. ''Sc.'' [f. Here ''adv.'' 16 + For ''prep.'': compare ''therefore''; Du. ''hiervoor'', Ger. ''hierfür'', Da. ''herfor''.] [¶] '''1.''' For this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this. Still in occas. Sc. use, written ''herefor''. [¶] ''a'' '''1300''' ''Cursor M.'' 17506 Þir guiftes her for [''Cott.'' þar-for] giue we ?u. ''c'' '''1380''' Wyclif ''Sel. Wks.'' III. 343 He was tau?t to strive not herfore. '''1549''' Chaloner ''Erasmus on Folly'' Sija, Herefore haue I obteined the mercy of god. ''Mod. Sc.'' For the sum of twenty pounds, being the consideration herefor given. [¶] † '''2.''' For this reason, on this account, therefore. [¶
†herefor, -fore, adv.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
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.