Congee vs Null - What's the difference?
congee | null |
(obsolete) Formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(archaic) A bow.
*, II.17:
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
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 congee and null
is that congee is (obsolete) formal departure, ceremonial leave-taking or congee can be a type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.congee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* conge *Noun
(en noun)- So courteous conge both did giue and take, / With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
- As salutations, reverences, or conges , by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous.
- “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee , nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), perhaps via Portuguese.(ta)Alternative forms
* conjeeNoun
(wikipedia congee) (en-noun)Derived terms
* rice congeeSynonyms
* jook * jukSee also
*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.