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Definition: Nullified |
NullifiedAdjective1. Deprived of legal force. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nullified" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
Synonym: NullifiedSynonym: invalidated (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nullified |
| English words defined with "nullified": offside, offsides ♦ Undecreed. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nullified": Nullify. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But motives are nullified by a legitimate alibi. (Rehearsal for Murder; writing credit: Richard Levinson; William Link) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Belarus | A 1997 Council of Ministers decree nullified the accreditation of all correspondents and required all foreign media correspondents to apply for accreditation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the application form for accreditation requested biographic information as well as a record of the applicant's journalistic activity. (references) |
Discrimination | Romania | An emergency ordinance has the effect of law unless it is nullified by the Parliament. (references) |
Economic History | Lesotho | Citing election irregularities, Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan nullified the elections, declared a national state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and dissolved the Parliament. (references) |
Human Rights | Argentina | In February the Italian Supreme Court nullified the September 2000 ruling that had allowed Olivera's release, which reportedly was based on a false death certificate. (references) |
Lebanon | On April 30, the Military Court of Cassation nullified a verdict issued by the Permanent Military Tribunal, which had sentenced the owner of an Internet service provider (ISP) and a human rights activist to 1 month in prison. (references) | |
Colombia | This ruling, which had not yet been issued formally and implemented by year's end, in essence nullified the military judiciary's conviction, and means that Uscategui's case will fall to the Prosecutor General's office for investigation and prosecution. (references) | |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | In 2000 the Supreme Court nullified on procedural grounds approximately 6,000 absentee ballots sent by troops stationed in the DRC. The ruling followed widespread reports that the ballots had been distributed by ZANU-PF to districts where it faced narrow defeat by MDC candidates. (references) |
Cameroon | Ninety-six contests in which the Government declared the ruling party candidate the winner were appealed to the Supreme Court, which declared itself unqualified to adjudicate many of these complaints, but nullified the results of 18 elections, which it ordered the Government to hold again. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uganda | The Ministry also reportedly nullified all elections and resolutions of any trade union meetings held since April. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nullified" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 72.92% of the time. "Nullified" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 72.92% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 27.08% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nullified php | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nullified"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | ä½¿æ— æ•ˆ (Nulled, Nullify, Nullifying). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | nichtig erklärte, aufgehoben (abrogated, repealed, rescinded). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ullifiednay аннулировать аннулированный (annulled, invalidated). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Nullified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uglified. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nullified" (pronounced nu"lufī'd) |
| 5 | -l u f ī' d | amplified, disqualified, exemplified, mollified, overqualified, oversimplified, qualified, simplified, unqualified. |
| 4 | -u f ī' d | acidified, calcified, certified, clarified, classified, codified, crucified, decertified, Declassified, dignified, diversified, electrified, falsified, fortified, gentrified, glorified, gratified, horrified, identified, indemnified, intensified, justified, liquefied, magnified, misidentified, modified, mortified, mummified, mystified, notified, ossified, pacified, personified, petrified, purified, quantified, ratified, reclassified, rectified, reunified, signified, solidified, specified, stratified, terrified, testified, typified, unclassified, undignified, unidentified, unified, unjustified, unspecified, unverified, verified. |
| 3 | -f ī' d | dissatisfied, satisfied, sulfide, unsatisfied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-l-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: unfilled. | |
-2 letters: infidel, infield, unified. | |
-3 letters: duelli, filled, fulled, lilied, nielli, nilled, nulled. | |
-4 letters: elfin, felid, field, fiend, filed, fille, fined, flied, flued, fluid, fundi, indie, indue, lined, nudie, unfed, unled. | |
-5 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, dell, deni, diel, dill, dine, duel, dull, dune, fell, fend, feud, file, fill, find, fine, fled, flue, fuel, full. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-i-l-l-n-u" | |
+4 letters: sulfanilamide, unqualifiedly. | |
+5 letters: sulfanilamides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 75 6C 6C 69 66 69 65 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- .-.. .-.. .. ..-. .. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N u l l i f i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0075 006C 006C 0069 0066 0069 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488778787572757170 |
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