Concubine vs Null - What's the difference?
concubine | null |
A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
A slave-girl for sexual service prominent in all ancient cultures.
Signifies a relationship where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically
A woman attached to a man solely for reproduction, and who cares for the resulting children without any romantic relationship.
a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan or emperor, for sexual purposes.
A woman kept by a man who is high in hierarchial society in addition to his wives, e.g in the imperial harem or within a household.
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 concubine and null
is that concubine is a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.concubine
English
(concubinage)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* concubinageSee also
* harem * polygamy * co-wife * seraglioReferences
* Random House Unabridged Dictionary ----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.