Brimstone vs Null - What's the difference?
brimstone | null |
Sulphur.
The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
*, chapter=7
, title= (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
* 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
* 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
The butterfly of the Pieridae family.
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 brimstone and null
is that brimstone is sulphur while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.brimstone
English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
- You're a brimstone idiot.
Derived terms
* fire and brimstoneQuotations
(dates and formatting needed) * 'Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' — Genesis, 19:24, King James Version * 'And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that {are} with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone .' — Ezekiel, 38:22 King James Version * 'For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.' — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene * 'Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone , and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.' — John Milton, Paradise Lost * 'Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone , and suchlike sweetmeats.' — Walter Scott, The Antiquary * '[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone , and used up as to bliss [...]' — Charles Dickens,Hard Times * 'Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.' — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby * 'The brimstone , too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * 'But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man English intensifiersnull
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.