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palmy | null |

As an adjective palmy

is (obsolete) made out of palm leaves or palm sap.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

palmy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap.
  • Of, related to, or covered with palm trees.
  • Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 46:
  • *:‘It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.’
  • * 1967 , (William Styron), The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 48:
  • *:So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.
  • 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 ----