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calender | null |

As nouns the difference between calender and null

is that calender is or calender can be one of a wandering, mendicant sufic order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes, founded in the 13th century by an arab named yusuf while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb calender

is to press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc, as in the homonymous machine.

calender

English

Etymology 1

* From (etyl) calandre, from . * This spelling (calendar) was introduced in the 17th century to differentiate the chronological senses from the machine (calender)

Noun

(wikipedia calender) (en noun)
  • A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
  • One who pursues the business of calendering.
  • Synonyms
    * (one in the business or trade of calendering) calendrer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper etc., as in the homonymous machine.
  • Derived terms
    * supercalender

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . (qalandar)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a wandering, mendicant Sufic order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes, founded in the 13th century by an Arab named Yusuf.
  • References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=calender&searchmode=none] * *

    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 ----