Coffin vs Undefined - What's the difference?
coffin | undefined |
An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
(obsolete) A basket.
* Wycliffe's Bible
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(Webster 1913)
To place in a coffin.
* 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun coffin
is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.As a verb coffin
is to place in a coffin.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.coffin
English
(wikipedia coffin)Alternative forms
* cophin (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).
- Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
- (Nares)
Usage notes
The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.Synonyms
* casket (US)Derived terms
* coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinmentVerb
(en verb)- The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
Synonyms
* encoffinundefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .
