Null
[nʌl]
Definition
(adj.) lacking any legal or binding force; 'null and void' .
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Definition
(a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
(n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
(n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
(v. t.) To annul.
(n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Void, invalid, useless, nugatory, of no efficacy, of no account.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See VOID]
Checker: Steve
Definition
adj. of no legal force: void: invalid: of no importance.—n. something of no value or meaning a cipher: a bead-like raised work.—v.t. to annul nullify.—v.i. to kink: to form nulls or into nulls as in a lathe.—Nulled work woodwork turned by means of a lathe so as to form a series of connected knobs—for rounds of chairs &c.
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Examples
- I conceive a conditional engagement to be null and void, when the conditions are not fulfilled. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It made even the impertinent structure of this null house disappear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was very still, almost null, in her manner, apart and watchful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was beyond death, so utterly null, desert. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Everything was null to the senses, there was enclosure without substance, for the walls were dry and papery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But always it was this eternal see-saw, one destroyed that the other might exist, one ratified because the other was nulled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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