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reparate | null |

As an adjective reparate

is (obsolescent|rare) restored]] to a state of good [[repair#noun|repair; returned to working order.

As a verb reparate

is ; restore to proper condition or reparate can be make reparation(s).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

reparate

English

Etymology 1

From the Classical (etyl) .

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolescent, rare) Restored]] to a state of good [[repair#Noun, repair; returned to working order.
  • * For examples of the usage of this term see the .
  • References

    * “ †?reparate, ppl. a.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] , second edition (1989)
    Gives the Latin etymology and defines the adjective merely as “repaired”; gives one supporting quotation and does not indicate the pronunciation. * “ †reparate, adj.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , draft revision (December 2009)
    Gives the Latin etymology and defines the adjective similarly hereto; gives two supporting quotations and does not indicate the pronunciation.

    Etymology 2

    From the Classical (etyl) .

    Verb

  • ; restore to proper condition.
  • * For examples of the usage of this term see the .
  • References

    * “ reparate, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', draft revision (December 2009)
    Gives the Latin etymology, noting “after [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50202915 REPARATION
    ''n.''”, and offering for comparison the related adjective ”.

    Etymology 3

    Back-formation from reparation.

    Verb

  • Make reparation(s).
  • Make reparation(s) for; redress.
  • (transitive, chiefly, US) Make reparation to; compensate.
  • Quotations
    * For examples of the usage of this term see the .

    References

    * Ole R. Reuter, On the Development of English Verbs from Latin and French Past Participles'' (Helsingfors, 1934), page 155]
    reparate 1922 [back-form. f. ''reparation
    . * “reparate, v.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , draft revision (December 2009)
    Lists this verb as the same word as , defining it in the transitive senses only. English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    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 ----