Chine vs Null - What's the difference?
chine | null |
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
* Dryden
* 1883:
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
(nautical) a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
(Webster 1913)
(Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
* J. Ingelow
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169
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 chine
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.chine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chyne, from (etyl) eschine.Noun
(wikipedia chine) (en noun)- And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
Verb
(chin)Etymology 2
(etyl) , from (etyl) cine, (cinu). The Old English term is cognate to Old Saxon kena, and is related to the Old English verb ("to split open, to sprout").Noun
(en noun)- The cottage in a chine .
- In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.
Anagrams
* ----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.