Celestial vs Null - What's the difference?
celestial | null |
Relating to heaven in a religious sense.
Relating to the sky or space.
* Shakespeare
(Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
* {{quote-journal , year=1974 , date=February , title=A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee , journal=Ensign
, passage=We are now living and obeying celestial' laws that will make us candidates for ' celestial glory.}}
* {{quote-journal , year=1997 , date=November , author=Richard J. Maynes , title=A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years , journal=Ensign
, passage=How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial' future? How will you connect your ' celestial goals with your everyday life?}}
An inhabitant of heaven.
* {{quote-book , year=1913 , author=Horace Coffin Stanton , title=Telepathy of the Celestial World
, passage=For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that. }}
(obsolete, sometimes, capitalized) A native of China.
* {{quote-book , year=1897 , author=Joseph Llewelyn Thomas , title=Journeys Among the Gentle Japs in the Summer of 1895 , chapter=The North Pacific
, passage=Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China.}}
(obsolete, slang) by extension, an East Asian person.
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 celestial and null
is that celestial is an inhabitant of heaven or celestial can be (obsolete|sometimes|capitalized) a native of china while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective celestial
is relating to heaven in a religious sense.celestial
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier)Etymology 1
From (etyl) celestial, from .Adjective
(-)- (Milton)
- The twelve celestial signs.
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Synonyms
* (Relating to heaven in a religious sense) divine, heavenly, spiritualDerived terms
* celestial body * Celestial Empire * celestial equator * celestial globe * celestial guidance * celestial horizon * celestial latitude * celestial longitude * celestial navigation * celestial peace * celestial pole * celestial sphereNoun
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Etymology 2
From Celestial Empire, a formerly used name for China.Noun
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References
* * *Kingdoms of Gloryon LDS.org. ----
null
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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.