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commune | null |

As nouns the difference between commune and null

is that commune is a small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb commune

is to converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

commune

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) commune, in turn deriving from Latin.

Noun

(wikipedia commune) (en noun)
  • A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
  • A local political division in many European countries.
  • (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
  • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
  • * Tennyson
  • For days of happy commune dead.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (commun)
  • To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
  • To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
  • He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
  • To receive the communion.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • To commune under both kinds.
    English heteronyms ----

    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 ----