Alabaster vs Null - What's the difference?
alabaster | null |
A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
* c. 1596 , ,
* 1867 '', ''Paradiso ,
*:: But like a radiant fillet ran along
*:: So that fire seemed it behind alabaster .
* 1915 , The New York Times , "
(historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
Made of alabaster
Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, 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
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As nouns the difference between alabaster and null
is that alabaster is alabaster while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.alabaster
English
(wikipedia alabaster)Alternative forms
* alabastre (obsolete) * alablaster (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I, lines 89-90
- Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
- Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ?
Canto XV, lines 22-23] (translated by [[w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow])
- Nor was the flame dissevered from its ribbon
Egyptian Antiquities for Metropolitan" (pdf), 15 May
- One of the striking relics found at the tomb, was a Canopic portrait head of Queen Tii, made entirely of alabaster except the eyes and eyebrows, which were inlaid lapis lazuli and osidian.
Adjective
(-)- The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
- An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.
Quotations
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece", lines 418-420 *: With more than admiration he admir’d *:: Her azure veins, her alabaster skin, *:: Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin. * 1611 , King James Version of the Bible, Mark 14:3 *: And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. * before 1887 , Emily Dickinson, "
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" *: Safe in their alabaster chambers *: Untouched by morning, untouched by noon *: Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, *: Rafters of satin, and roof of stone. * 1895 , Katherine Lee Bates, "" *: Thy alabaster cities gleam *: Undimmed by human tears! *
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.