Alms vs Null - What's the difference?
alms | null |
Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.
* c.'' 1779 ,
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 alms and null
is that alms is something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.alms
English
Noun
(alms)- She gave $10 weekly to the poor as alms .
- Alms are distributed from the weekly collection for the purpose.
- St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God.
Anagrams
* ----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.