different between nul vs bonfire

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nul, from Middle Dutch nul, from Middle French nul or Italian nulla, from Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nœl/

Numeral

nul

1. zero

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nullus (“none”), attested from 1888.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?nul/

Adjective

nul (feminine nul·la, masculine plural nuls, feminine plural nul·les)

1. null, insignificant, negligible
2. useless, inept

   Synonyms: inútil, inepte

3. null, void, invalid
4. null, absent, non-existent

   Synonyms: absent, inexistent

Related terms

• anul·lar

References

Further reading

• “nul” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nul” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nul” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Via German Null (“zero”) and Italian nulla (“zero”) from New Latin n?lla (“zero”), a substantivization of the adjective Latin n?llus (“no”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nol/, [?n?l]

Numeral

nul

1. zero

Interjection

nul

1. no way (vehement refusal)

Synonyms

• niks, nix, du kan tro nej

Noun

nul n (singular definite nullet, plural indefinite nuller)

1. The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

   En million er et ettal med seks nuller efter.

   One million is a one followed by six zeros.

2. (figuratively) A nobody, a nonentity.
3. (in the plural) 2000s (the first decade of the 21st century)

Declension

Descendants

• ? Icelandic: núll

Pronoun

nul (uninflected)

1. (determiner) no
2. (pronoun) nothing

Synonyms

• ingen, intet

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nul, from Middle French nul, from Old French nul, nulle (modern French nul) or Italian nulla, from Latin n?lla, from Latin n?llus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l/
• Hyphenation: nul
• Rhymes: -?l

Numeral

nul

1. zero, nought

Derived terms

Noun

nul m (plural nullen, diminutive nulletje n)

1. (mathematics) A zero, naught, the numerical expression of none, nothing.
2. (figuratively) A score of zero, the worst possible result.
3. (figuratively) A good-for-nothing, worth-/use-less person.

Related terms

• annuleren (verb)
• nihil
• nulliteit

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nul

Adjective

nul (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. (archaic) nul, void
2. worthless

Synonyms

• (void) ongeldig
• (worthless) waardeloos

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from nulo.

Pronunciation

Numeral

nul

1. zero

Usage notes

Can be used with both singular and plural nouns. (E.g. “zero dollars” can be both “nul dolaro” or “nul dolaroj”.) There is no formal standard for grammatical plurality of numbers between -1 and 1.

French

Etymology

From Middle French nul, from Old French, from Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nyl/

Adjective

nul (feminine singular nulle, masculine plural nuls, feminine plural nulles)

1. (indefinite, singular only) no, nil
2. of poor quality, lousy, rubbish
3. lame

Usage notes

• The plural forms of nul as a determiner are archaic.

Noun

nul m (plural nuls)

1. (sports) A draw.

Pronoun

nul ?

1. (literary) no one, nobody

Synonyms

• personne

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nul” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• l'un

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French nul, from Latin nullus.

Pronoun

nul

1. nobody; no one

Adjective

nul m (feminine singular nulle, masculine plural nuls, feminine plural nulles)

1. none (not any)

Descendants

• French: nul
• ? English: null

Old French

Etymology

Latin nullus.

Pronoun

nul (singular, nominative nus or nuls)

1. nobody; no one

Adjective

nul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular nule)

1. none (not any)

Descendants

• Middle French: nul
  • French: nul
  • ? English: null
• ? Dutch: nul
  • Afrikaans: nul

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) nulla
• (Sutsilvan) nola, nula
• (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) nolla

Etymology

From Latin nullus.

Numeral

nul

1. (Sursilvan) zero

English

Alternative forms

• burnfire
• bone-fire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bonefire, bonefyre, banefyre (“a fire in which bones are burnt”); equivalent to bone +? fire, with the first element perhaps later assimilating to French bon. Cognate with Scots banefire (“bonfire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?n.?fa?.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?n.?fa?.?/, /?b?n.?fa?.?/

Noun

bonfire (plural bonfires)

1. (obsolete) A fire in which bones are burned.
2. A fire to burn unwanted or disreputable items or people: proscribed books, heretics etc.
3. A large, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something.

Derived terms

• Bonfire Night

Translations

References

See also

• balefire
• bale

Verb

bonfire (third-person singular simple present bonfires, present participle bonfiring, simple past and past participle bonfired)

1. To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
   • 2000, Moira Vincentelli, Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester University Press (?ISBN), page 42:

     Most women's traditions involve open firing such as bonfiring, pitfiring, or a fire surrounded by a low wall. More unusually, in Cyprus, Colombia and the Canaries individual potters have their own kilns.

   • 2004, Moira Vincentelli, Women Potters: Transforming Traditions, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN), page 212:

     Bonfiring has a very direct contact between the pottery and the flame. Firing time is usually quite short and the pots are carefully supervised through the process. Bonfiring, in general, does not create the same amount of wasters as kiln firing ...

   • 2018, Kerstin Pinther, Alexandra Weigand, Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow: Design Histories between Africa and Europe, transcript Verlag (?ISBN), page 102:

     […] while open bonfiring was practiced mainly by women and universally used in African traditions where it has a very low failure rate. It has been characterized as technically simple though in fact it requires a hyper refined combination of specific clay body, fuel, firing technique and atmospheric conditions - formulas derived from local experimentation mainly by generations of women.

2. To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
   • 2014, Joan Rust, Anniecat Chronicles, Xlibris Corporation (?ISBN), page 131:

     […] are all bar-b-quing, swimming, jetskiing, bonfiring, and the next thing you know everyone is gone, leaving the house empty […]

   • 2016, Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling (?ISBN), cover summary:

     She could only dream about bonfiring with the populars.

Anagrams

• be in for