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Blazon vs Null - What's the difference?

blazon | null |

As nouns the difference between blazon and null

is that blazon is (heraldry) a verbal or written description of a coat of arms while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb blazon

is to describe a coat of arms.

blazon

English

(wikipedia blazon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
  • * 1894 , James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry :
  • ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous
  • (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
  • * 1997 , Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon :
  • We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented'' many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the ''everyday lexicon of terms...
  • (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Their blazon o'er his towers displayed.
  • Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
  • * Collier
  • Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee fivefold blazon .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To describe a coat of arms.
  • * Addison
  • the coat of arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English
  • * 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
  • After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto
  • To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
  • * Shakespeare, , Act VI-III:
  • O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st / in these two princely boys.
  • * Trumbull
  • There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
  • * Cowper
  • to blazon his own worthless name
  • To display conspicuously or publicly.
  • To shine; to be conspicuous.
  • To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
  • * Garth
  • She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----