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jazz | null |

As a proper noun jazz

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

jazz

English

Alternative forms

* jaz, jas, jass, jasz

Noun

(-)
  • (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
  • Energy, excitement, excitability. Very lively.
  • The (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing.
  • What jazz were you referring to earlier?
    What is all this jazz lying around?
  • Unspecified thing(s).
  • I'm just going down to the shops and jazz = I am off to purchase items and etcetera.
  • (lb) Of excellent quality, the genuine article.
  • That show was the jazz ! = That musical concert/television program was most enjoyable.
    This risotto is simply the jazz . = This risotto was cooked in the classic manner.
  • Nonsense.
  • Stop talking jazz .

    Verb

  • To play jazz music.
  • To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
  • To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
  • To complicate.
  • Don’t jazz it too much! = Be careful, it was good to start with!
  • To have sex with.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 59:
  • Jazzing ?’ Temple whispered [...]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
  • To destroy.
  • You’ve gone and jazzed it now! = It is ruined.
  • To distract/pester.
  • Stop jazzing me! = Leave me alone.

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    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

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