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riser | null |

As a verb riser

is to laugh.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

riser

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something which rises.
  • A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
  • The choir stood on risers for the performance.
  • The vertical part of a step on a staircase.
  • (archery) The main body of a bow.
  • A conduit or path between floors of a building for placement of telephone, networking, and other utility cables.
  • A Manx cat with an extremely short tail.
  • Antonyms

    * (vertical part of a step) run, tread

    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 ----