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largely | null |

As an adverb largely

is in a widespread or large manner.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

largely

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • In a widespread or large manner.
  • For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
  • *
  • Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
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  • On a large scale; amply.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .
  • *:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.
  • (obsolete) Fully, at great length.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.

    Anagrams

    * allergy * gallery * regally English degree adverbs English hedges

    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 ----