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peculiarly | null |

As an adverb peculiarly

is such as to be greater than usual; particularly; exceptionally.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

peculiarly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Such as to be greater than usual; particularly; exceptionally.
  • # (degree) To greater degree than is usual.
  • He has a peculiarly strong accent.
  • This racehorse is peculiarly fast.
  • #* 1916 , , Section 14.
  • Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human.
  • #* 1917 , [1877], , Part One, Chapter 18,
  • He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.
  • # (manner) In a manner that is greater than usual.
  • #* 1818 , , Chapter 4,
  • One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
  • #* '1913 July 3, ,
  • I feel that the Progressive Party should appeal peculiarly to the young men--and therefore to the boys--who ought to be the next generation of voters.
  • Such as to be strange or odd.
  • # (degree) Strangely, oddly.
  • His nose is peculiarly bent.
  • # (manner) In a strange or perverse manner; strangely.
  • He dresses peculiarly .
  • # (evaluative) Such as to be strange or odd.
  • Peculiarly , his hat is on upside-down.
  • # (act-related) Acting in strange or perverse way.
  • Peculiarly , he left through the window.
  • Peculiarly , he sat bolt upright and shouted "Geronimo!" whenever John Wayne appeared.
  • Strongly associated with.
  • # (degree, of a place or circumstance) Mostly or solely associated with.
  • Having red hair and freckles is a characteristic that is peculiarly Northern European.
  • #* 1907 , , Volume 6: Lectures and Discourses,
  • This is one of the methods of procedure. The other is through man to God. The second is peculiarly' Aryan, and the first is ' peculiarly Semitic.
  • #* 1917 , , Introduction,
  • However, he already gave strong indication of the peculiarly Russian genius for naturalness or realism, and was a true Russian in his simplicity of style.
  • English degree adverbs English manner adverbs English act-related adverbs English evaluative adverbs

    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 ----