Chair vs Null - What's the difference?
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An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
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(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
(rail transport) Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
The electric chair.
A distinguished professorship at a university.
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An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
* (Alexander Pope)
To act as chairperson.
To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
* 1896 , , "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad ,
(Wales, UK) To award a chair to the winning poet at a Welsh eisteddfod.
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 verb chair
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.chair
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs' for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm' chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair , and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
- (Shakespeare)
- Think what an equipage thou hast in air, / And view with scorn two pages and a chair .
Derived terms
* birthing chair * chairman * chairness * chairwoman * chairperson * armchair * deck chair * easy chair * first chair * flag chair * give someone the chair * high chair * musical chairs * rocking chair * tub chair * wheelchair * wing chairVerb
(en verb)- Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
- The time you won your town the race
- We chaired you through the marketplace.
- The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
Statistics
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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.