Brow vs Null - What's the difference?
brow | null |
The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow ().
* Churchill
The first tine of an antler's beam.
The forehead ().
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
(nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
(nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
An eyebrow.
* Shakespeare
To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
* Milton
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 brow and null
is that brow is the ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow () while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb brow
is to bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.brow
English
Noun
(en noun)- And his arched brow , pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
- Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow .
citation, passage=Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow .}}
- the brow of a precipice
- 'Tis not your inky brows , your black silk hair.
Derived terms
* beetle-browed * eyebrowSynonyms
* foreheadVerb
(en verb)- Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.
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.