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muller | null |
One who, or that which, mulls.
(arts) A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.
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A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
To grind up into, or as if into, powder.
* 1848 , On Lucifer Matches'', in the ''Pharmaceutical Journal , volume 7 (1847-8), page 523:
* 1901 , Patrick Walker, Six Saints of the Covenant , volume 1, page 31:
(metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.
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(UK) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).
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* 2007 , Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us , page 220:
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A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As a proper noun muller
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.muller
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or 'mullered ,' copious fumes are evolved.
- I have often thought in my melancholy days, these years bygone, that if it might be supposed, that the souls of our worthies were come from heaven, and the dust of their mullered bodies from their graves, and reunite again;
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* sand mullerEtymology 3
. One theory derives the term from the surname of the murderer Franz Müller,Cassell's Dictionary of Slang'' (ISBN 0304366366, 2005), page 976 while another theory derives it from the surname of German footballer Gerd Müller;''Dictionary of Contemporary Slang'' (ISBN 1408181819, 2014), page 298 both are phonologically improbable. ''The Oxford Guide to Etymology'' (ISBN 0191618780, 2009) asserts that it is "very probably of Romani origin, from a verb ultimately related to Sanskrit ''m?-' 'to die')."Verb
(en verb)- Then there were these zombie cult people in the beds, wires and stuff shoved into them, and then Yianna had these two minders and they were the ones who mullered us in Cairo, I swear, and one of them grabbed Con [...]
Quotations
* 1983 , Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates , page 4: *: "No— beer was my Bessie's favorite drink, and since she mullered I've not had a drop of it."References
* Wm. H. Peet, in Notes and Queries , page 337 (25 October 1902): The term "Muller," or "Muller-cut-down," applied to a hat, referred to an incident connected with the murder of Mr. Briggs in a railway carriage on 9 July, 1864. The murderer was Franz Müller, and [...] he was found with his victim's hat [...]. The hat had been specially made for Mr. Briggs, but Müller had had it cut down in a way that was common in the second-hand hat trade. For some years after a low hat was spoken of as a "Muller-cut-down," or a man was spoken of as having had his hat "mullered."null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.