null, void
(adjective) lacking any legal or binding force; “null and void”
nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
(noun) 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® 3.1
null (plural nulls)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) Null hypothesis.
null (comparative more null, superlative most null)
Having no validity; "null and void"
Insignificant.
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.
• antinull
• non-null
null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)
(transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
(computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Null (plural er-noun or Nulls)
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Null, a. Etym: [L. nullus not any, none; ne not + ullus any, a dim. of unus one; cf. F. nul. See No, and One, and cf. None.]
Definition: Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.
Null, n.
1. Something that has no force or meaning.
2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.
Null, v. t. Etym: [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.]
Definition: To annul. [Obs.] Milton.
Null, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: One of the beads in nulled work.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
