Bispel vs Null - What's the difference?
bispel | null |
(lb) A proverb or parable.
*1983 , Marianne Powell, Fabula Docet :
*1998 , Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7 :
*2008 , Janie Steen, Verse and Virtuosity :
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 bispel and null
is that bispel is (lb) a proverb or parable while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bispel
English
Noun
- Helmut de Boor offers a similarly narrow definition of the nature of morals to be drawn from fables. Opposing "bispel'" and fable he sums up the differences as regards this aspect: "The '''bispel''' aims at cognition, the fable gives practical knowledge, and in so far as an educational aim is involved the ' bispel aims at improving man, the fable at making him wiser."
- Such episodes and events were used to illustrate and justify more general or abstract 'philosophical' statements in much the same way as exempla or bispel' 'edifying illustrative stories' were used in medieval sermons. And just as we have collections of exempla and ' bispel from medieval times onwards in Europe, [...]
- In adopting the bipartite structure, then, the Phoenix-poet demonstrates that this poem is a 'two-fold story,' a bispel .
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.