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wannish | null |

As an adjective wannish

is (obsolete) quite wan, quite pale.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

wannish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) quite wan, quite pale
  • *{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Hezekiah Butterworth, title=The Log School-House on the Columbia, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Leigh Gordon Giltner, title=The Path of Dreams, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=John Keats, title=Keats= Poems Published in 1820, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet! }}

    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 ----