Consecrate vs Null - What's the difference?
consecrate | null |
To declare, or otherwise make something holy.
* 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
* Francis Bacon
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 consecrate
is to declare, or otherwise make something holy.As an adjective consecrate
is consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.consecrate
English
Verb
(consecrat)- But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate', we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have ' consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
Synonyms
* * * (l)Antonyms
* desecrate * defileAdjective
(en adjective)- They were assembled in that consecrate place.
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.