Checkmate vs Null - What's the difference?
checkmate | null |
(chess) Word called out by the victor when making the conclusive move.
The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
(figuratively, by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
(chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
(by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
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 checkmate and null
is that checkmate is the conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an interjection checkmate
is (chess) word called out by the victor when making the conclusive move.As a verb checkmate
is (chess) to put the king of an opponent into checkmate.checkmate
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Synonyms
* (chess)Noun
(wikipedia checkmate) (en noun)Verb
(checkmat)- That jerk checkmated me in four moves!
References
*Daily Times article on the etymology of the word
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.