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later | null |

As a verb later

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

later

English

Adverb

(head)
  • (late)
  • You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later .
  • Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
  • My roommate arrived first. I arrived later .
    I arrived later than my roommate.
  • At some unspecified time in the future.
  • I wanted to do it now, but I'll have to do it later .

    Antonyms

    * earlier

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (late)
  • Jim was later than John.
  • Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
  • The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
  • At some time in the future.
  • The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

    Antonyms

    * earlier

    Interjection

    (head)
  • (slang) See you later; goodbye.
  • Later , dude.
  • (slang) Dismissive term to minimize importance of an annoying persons.
  • Frequently used with "for you". "Later for you."

    Derived terms

    * later days * later on * save for later * sooner or later

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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

    * nil ----