Castle vs Null - What's the difference?
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A large building that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king.
(chess) An instance of castling.
(chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
(obsolete) A close helmet.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , p. 12,
(dated) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
(dated) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
(chess) To perform the move of castling.
(cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
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* 2011 , Firdose Moonda,
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 a proper noun castle
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.castle
English
(wikipedia castle)Noun
(en noun)- The castle was perhaps a figurative name for a close headpiece deduced from its enclosing and defending the head, as a castle did the whole body; or a corruption from the Old French word casquetel , a small or light helmet.
Usage notes
For the chess piece, chess players prefer the term rook.Synonyms
* (building) fortress, keepDerived terms
* build castles in the air * castellated * castle in the air * ice castle * king of the castle * sandcastleSee also
* *Verb
(castl)Lightning Bolt blows over Gayle, BBC Sport:
- And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure.
A day for missed hat-tricks, ESPNcricinfo:
- He bowled Vinay with a with a full, straight ball that castled off stump and then dished up a yorker that RP Singh backed away to and sent onto his stumps.
Anagrams
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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.