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moister | null |

As an adjective moister

is (moist).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

moister

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (moist)
  • Anagrams

    *

    moist

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Slightly wet; characterised by the presence of moisture, not dry; damp.
  • * 1937 , "Modernist Miracle", Time , 1 Nov 1937:
  • Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough.
  • * 2011 , Dominic Streatfeild, The Guardian , 7 Jan 2011:
  • "The other car didn't explode," continues Shujaa. "The explosives were a bit moist . They had been stored in a place that was too humid."
  • Of eyes: tearful, wet with tears.
  • * 1974 , "Mitchell and Stans: Not Guilty", Time , 6 Dec 1974:
  • Eyes moist , he hugged one of his attorneys and later said: "I feel like I've been reborn."
  • Of weather, climate etc.: rainy, damp.
  • * 2008 , Graham Harvey, The Guardian , 8 Sep 2008:
  • With its mild, moist climate, Britain is uniquely placed to grow good grass.
  • *:
  • Pituita'', or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder parts of the ''chylus  […].
  • (obsolete) Watery, liquid, fluid.
  • * 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia :
  • Some being of the opinion of Thales, that water was the originall of all things, thought it most equall to submit unto the principle of putrefaction, and conclude in a moist relentment.
  • (medicine) Characterised by the presence of pus, mucus etc.
  • (colloquial) Sexually lubricated (of the vagina); sexually aroused, turned on (of a woman).
  • * 2008 , Marcia King-Gamble, Meet Phoenix , p. 168:
  • He slid a finger in me, checking to make sure I was moist and ready for him.

    Synonyms

    * dank * damp *

    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 ----