Arms vs Null - What's the difference?
arms | null |
(pluralonly) Weapons.
* 1883 ,
(heraldry) Synonym for coat of arms.
English plurals
(arm)
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 arms and null
is that arms is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.arms
English
Etymology 1
See arm.Noun
(head)- We laid down on the snowbank and moved our arms up and down to make snow angels.
Etymology 2
13th Century, from (etyl) armes, (etyl) arma .Noun
(en-plural noun)- The next thing I laid hold of was a brace of pistols, and as I already had a powder horn and bullets, I felt myself well supplied with arms .
- The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.
Usage notes
* Capitalized, the word is often used in the names of pubs, taverns and the like.Verb
(head)- If the Duke arms himself for war, the king will not sit by idly!
Statistics
*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.