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liquidate | null |

As a verb liquidate

is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

liquidate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  • * W. Coxe
  • Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
  • To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  • To convert (assets) into cash.
  • To do away with.
  • To kill.
  • (legal) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
  • * 15 Ga. Rep. 821
  • A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
  • * Chesterfield
  • If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated , I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
  • (obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
  • * A. Hamilton
  • Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
  • (obsolete) To make liquid.
  • Synonyms

    * (to settle the affairs) conclude * (to kill)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----