Avertress vs Null - What's the difference?
avertress | null |
A woman, girl, goddess, or other female agent who averts.
* 1838 : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , “The Beacon — from The Agamemnon”, chorus (lines 35–39),
* 1923 : Swami Vijnanananda, The S’rimad Devi Bhagawatam , volume 1, chapter XIX: “On the going to the Svayamvara assembly of Sudars’ana”, verses 34–37 (links:
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 avertress and null
is that avertress is a woman, girl, goddess, or other female agent who averts while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.avertress
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Noun
(es)page 259
- When ?neath him yawned th’ expectant grave,
- Nor either parent dar’d to save,
- Tho’ hoary both, the life they gave,
- ?Twas thine in youth to seek the tomb,
- Avertress of thy husband’s doom?!
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uBEkOqvqSMkC&pg=PA268&dq=avertress&lr=], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kt02ZSt2Q8AC&pg=PA242&dq=avertress&lr=], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KwlHAYJR5KcC&pg=PA197&dq=avertress&lr=#PPA198,M1)
- O Son! Let Ambikâ Devî protect your front; Padmalochanâ protect your back; Pârvatî, your two sides; S’ivâ Devî, all around you; Vârâhî, in dreadful paths; Durgâ, in royal forts, Kâlikâ, in terrible fights; Parames’varî, in the platform hall; Mâtamgî, in the Svayamvara hall; Bhavanî, the Avertress of world, amidst the kings; Girijâ, in mountain passes; Chamundâ, in the sacrificial ground, and let the eternal Kâmagâ, protect you in the forests.
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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.