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vext | null |

As a verb vext

is (archaic) (vex).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

vext

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (vex)
  • * What happiness to reign a lonely king,
    Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
    O earth that soundest hollow under me,
    '''Vext
    with waste dreams?
    — Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King
    , "The Coming of Arthur"
  • * And that same night, the night of the new year,
    By reason of the bitterness and grief
    That vext his mother, all before his time
    Was Arthur born [...]
    — Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
  • * [...] and thence
    Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
    Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
    To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
    — Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"
  • English irregular simple past forms

    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 ----