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Chieftess vs Null - What's the difference?

chieftess | null |

As nouns the difference between chieftess and null

is that chieftess is a female form of the word chief or chieftain, meaning the leader of a tribe or clan while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

chieftess

English

Noun

(es)
  • A female form of the word chief or chieftain, meaning the leader of a tribe or clan.
  • *"This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendents ..." New travels among the Indians of North America , William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. [http://books.google.com/books?id=xcIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA294&dq=chieftess&hl=en&ei=lUkqTMDcDsL58AaetZ3SCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • *Loved by a Maori Chieftess (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)
  • 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 ----