Null

Definitions: Null

Null

Adjective

1. (law) lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void".

Noun

1. A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "null" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Aerospace

Mechanical Engineering

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Null

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Illegality

Expired, invalid; unchartered, unconstitutional; null and void; a dead letter.

Impotence

Null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual; (failing); inadequate; inefficacious; (useless).

Inexistence

Verb: not exist; have no existence; be null and void; cease to exist; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct; Adjective: die out; disappear; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die.

Annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate; destroy; take away; remove; (displace); obliterate, extirpate.

Nonobservance

Discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel; (wipe off).

Unproductiveness

Adjective: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable; (useless); null and void, of no effect.

Unsubstantiality

Vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.

Zero

Noun: zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts, nixie, nix; zilch, zip, zippo; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence; unsubstantiality.

Crosswords: Null

Estonian (zero), Faeroese (naught, nought, null, zero, zilch), German (dead loss, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, nullo, o, zero, zilch), Luxembourgish (zero), Norwegian (naught, nought, null, zero, zilch), Romansch (zero), Scottish (in the phr. : a null. See <A HREF="mf09.html#nunn">nunn</A>, over).

Is it any wonder I'm null and void? (Too Much Time On My Hands; performing artist: STYX; writing credit: Tommy Shaw)

Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

Meine Stunde Null (1970)

Um Null Uhr schnappt die Falle zu (1966)

Piccadilly null Uhr zwölf (1963)

Aural Null (1957)

Risiko Null - Der Tod steht auf dem Speiseplan (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Get Rid of the Poisons in Your Body / Gary Null and Steven Null. (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Age Is Only A Number with Gary Null (reference)

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High Tech

• Startech 10ft Serial Null Modem Cable Cross Wired Db9f/db9f (reference)

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And we shall procure nothing from anyone, directly or indirectly, whereby any part of these concessions and liberties might be revoked or diminished; and if any such things has been procured, let it be void and null, and we shall never use it personally or by another. (reference)

All judgments given by German Courts since August 3, 1914, against Alsace-Lorrainers for political crimes or misdemeanors shall be regarded as null and void. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Macau

They are particularly concerned because the Penal Code does not specify sentences for such crimes, and a legal vacuum was created when a Portuguese law dealing with crimes against state security became null and void after the handover. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

It becomes null if not used over an 18-month period. (references)

Venezuela

For all selective tenders, at least five suppliers must be invited to bid with a minimum of three offers actually submitted, or the process will be declared null and void. (references)

Human Rights

Venezuela

The Court declared the court-martial and sentence null and void, and sent the case to a state court in Maracay. (references)

Oman

The 1996 Basic Charter, which has not yet been implemented in this area, specifically prohibits "physical or moral torture" and stipulates that all confessions obtained by such methods are to be considered null and void. (references)

Peru

In September the Government acknowledged the infringement on the rights of SIE officer Leonor La Rosa by four of her colleagues, who beat and tortured her in 1997. The Government rendered the 1999 indemnity awarded her by the Supreme Council of Military Justice of approximately $1,500 (5,250 soles) null and void. (references)

Political Rights

Peru

Blank and null votes did not make up a significant percentage of the votes in the second round. (references)

Malaysia

In June a High Court judge in Sabah ruled that the 1999 election of BN candidate Yong Teck Lee to the state assembly seat in Likas was null and void due to the presence of phantom voters on the electoral rolls. (references)

Worker Rights

Egypt

The ILO for years has claimed that the Labor Code undermines the principle of voluntary bargaining by providing that any clause of a collective agreement that might impair the economic interest of the country is null and void. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "null": aural null ♦ declare null and void ♦ null and void ♦ null bias ♦ null character string ♦ null leakage ♦ null method ♦ null model ♦ null modem ♦ null set ♦ null shift ♦ null space ♦ null string ♦ null symbol ♦ render null. Additional references.

Beginning with "null": null-grav, null-reference glide path, null-sense, null-terminated multibyte string.

Ending with "null": aleph-null, non-null.

Albanian

që nuk ekziston, jo i shprehur, i pavlefshëm (dime, non-effective, priceless, tin, uncritical, useless, void, worthless), i pafuqi (feeble, impotent, nerveless, powerless, weak). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏لاغ (extinct, invalid, void), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏عديم الوجود, ‏باطل (bad, bootless, delusive, delusory, dud, ineffective, invalid, nugatory, null and void, obsolete, unfruitful, vicious, void, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

равен на нула, нула (cipher, goose-egg, love, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, ought, peanut, zero), нещо без всякакво значение, неизразителен (featureless, inexpressive), недействителен (inofficious, inoperative, invalid, nude, null and void, shadowy, unreal, unverifiable, void), нищожество (insect, nit, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, pygmy, squit, wet, whiff), никакъв (no, none, punk, putrid, scabbed, scabby, shabby), безличен (faceless, impersonal, nondurable). (various references)

Chinese 

零位. (various references)

Czech

nulový (neutral), neplatný (defunct, inoperative, lapsed, null and void, out of date, spoilt, unlawful, void), bezvýznamný (inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, pointless, poor, small time, trifling). (various references)

Danish

nul-udligningsstroem, nul (naught, neutral, nought, zero, zilch), tilstanden null (rest 0), rest 0 (rest 0). (various references)

Dutch

nul (naught, nought, rest 0, zero, zilch), nihil (naught, nil, nothing, nought, zero, zilch). (various references)

Esperanto

nulo (naught, nought, zero, zilch). (various references)

Faeroese

null (naught, nought, zero, zilch), einki (naught, neither, no, nobody, none, no-one, nothing, nought, zero, zilch). (various references)

Farsi 

ملغی (Abrogate), صفر (Naught, Nil, Nothing, Zero), بلااثر, باطل (Inoperative, Invalid, Vain, Void). (various references)

Finnish

nolla-asento, nolla (neutral, nil, nought, rest 0, zero), lepotila (cold conditions, dormancy, mark, quiescence, rest 0, space, winter rest). (various references)

French

zéro. (various references)

German

Null (A condition, dead loss, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, nullo, o, space, zero, zilch), ungültig (bad, canceled, disallowed, expired, foul, illegal, inoperative, invalid, nonstandard, out of date, spoilt, unlawful, unlawfully, void), nichtig (empty, inane, invalid, trifling, trivial, vain, void). (various references)

Greek 

Rest 0 (rest 0), μηδέν (blob, naught, nil, nought, zero), μηδενική κατάσταση (rest 0), άκυροσ (invalid, nugatory, null and void, vitiated, void). (various references)

Hebrew 

אפסי (insignificant, negligible, nugatory, zeroed), בטל (goner, idle, invalid, off, piffling, unoccupied, vacant, void). (various references)

Hungarian

semmis (invalid, null and void), érvénytelen (ineffectual, infirm, invalid, null and void, void), semmitmondó (evasive, frivolous, meaningless, non committal, noncommittal, windy), nullázó (setback device), nulla-, nulla (aught, cipher, duck, naught, nil, nothing, nought, o, zero), nem olvasandó betű, kifejezéstelen (expressionless, glassy, inexpressive, vacant, vacuous), jellegtelen (characterless, featureless), hatálytalan (invalid, of no effect, unavailable, vitiate). (various references)

Icelandic

núll. (various references)

Italian

nullo (insignificant, invalid, of no importance, pointless, rest 0, vain, void). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

空白 (blank space, space, vacuum), ヌード写真 (noon bright, nougat, nouveau, nouveau roman, nouvelle, nouvelles vagues, nucleotide, nude photo, tow linked fighting sticks). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヌル , くうはく (blank space, space, vacuum). (various references)

Manx

er neunhee (void), ass bree (null and void, void). (various references)

Norwegian

null (naught, nought, zero, zilch). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullnay

Polish

zero (naught, nought, zero, zilch). (various references)

Portuguese

zero (cipher, cypher, naught, Nile, nonentity, nothing, nought, o, ought, pressmark, zero, zilch). (various references)

Romanian

nul (inept, tie), nevalabil (bad), zero (cipher, duck's, love, morsel, naught, nil, nobody, nothing, nought, zero). (various references)

Russian 

недействительный (ineffective, inefficacious, inept, invalid, non-effective, nude, unavailable, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nula (duck's egg, goose-egg, love, naught, nil, nought, zero), ništavan (inane, naught, nought, nugatory, null and void, scampish, worthless). (various references)

Spanish

nulo (invalid, naught, nil, rest 0, spoilt, void, zero). (various references)

Swedish

värdelös (chaffy, cheesy, crappy, fustian, naught, ne'erdoweel, no go, punk, straw, trivial, trumpery, useless, valueless, vile, worthless). (various references)

Thai

ไม่มีค่า. (various references)

Turkish

sifir (naught, nought, zero, zilch), sıfır (cipher, cypher, naught, nil, nothing, nought, o, ought, zero), işe yaramaz (dud, fiddling, good for nothing, idle, it's no use, no good, noneffective, non-effective, of no avail, of no use, offcast, otiose, out, refuse, reject, unfit, unserviceable, useless, weedy), hiç (any, at all, aught, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, ne'er, never, nil, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero, zilch), hükümsüz (inoperative, invalid, nude, nugatory, statute-barred, void), geçersiz (defunct, full of holes, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, no-account, non-effective, nude, off, out of use, paper, unsound, void), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukranian 

робити недійсним (invalidate, nullify, vitiate), гасити (choke, dowse, extinguish, out, quench, turn out), відсутній (absent, absentee, lacking, missing, non-available, unavailable, wanting), нульовий, нуль (blob, cipher, naught, nihil, nil, nothing, nought, ought, zero), нечинний, недійсний (inofficious, invalid, lapsed, non-effective, non-negotiable, nude, nugatory, null and void, unavailable), анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, defeat, disannul, elide, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, wash out, withdraw), безрезультатний (ineffective, ineffectual, issueless, negative, non-effective, sterile, without effect), погашати (balance, cancel, sink). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô hiệu (unhelpful, vain), vô giá trị không có cá tính, không có hiệu lực vô dụng, không (nil, nixie, no, scarcely). (various references)

nullus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "null": nullah, nullahs, nulled, nullification, nullificationist, nullificationists, nullifications, nullified, nullifier, nullifiers, nullifies, nullify, nullifying, nulling, nulliparous, nullities, nullity, nulls. (additional references)

Words containing "null": annulled, annulling, disannulled, disannulling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Null" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anull, Jull, Nalle, naul, ncl, neill, nelk, nell, nelle, Nello, nfl, Nkulu, nl, nlp, noall, nohl, nol, Nolla, nolo, nonl, noul, nsl, Ntuli, nuhl, nuil, nula, nule, nulla, nulle, nulli, Nullum, nulo, nult, Nuul, Unld. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: nulls.

+2 letters: lunula, lunule, mullen, nullah, nulled, sullen, unroll, unsell, unwell.

+3 letters: bluntly, bulling, bullion, bullpen, culling, cullion, dulling, fulling, gallnut, gulling, hulling, lacunal, levulin, lingual, lulling, lumenal, luminal, lungful, lunulae, lunular, lunules, lupulin, millrun, mullein, mullens, mulling, mullion, nucelli, nucleal, nullahs, nullify, nulling, nullity, nutgall, planula, pulling, pullman, ululant, unlevel, unrolls, unsells, unshell.

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