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charity | null |

As a proper noun charity

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

charity

English

Noun

  • (archaic)  Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.
  • In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.
  • Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity . — John Mitchell Mason
  • (uncountable)  Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • (countable)  The goods or money given to those in need.
  • (countable)  An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
  • Synonyms

    * (organization) charitable organization

    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 ----