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Contemner vs Null - What's the difference?

contemner | null |

As nouns the difference between contemner and null

is that contemner is one who contemns, who displays contempt towards another while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

contemner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who contemns, who displays contempt towards another.
  • * ante'' 1588 : (probably), ''A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons'', in ''Cartwrightiana (1951; edited by Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson), page 244] (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415319897&parent_id=&pc= Routledge; ISBN 0415319889, 0415319897)
  • Præsumptuous violators or contemners of the sabbath or holie exercises /.
  • * 1861 November, , Volume IX, Number LII (February 1862), page 10:
  • I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: / “As ye deal with my contemners , so with you my grace shall deal; / ”
  • * 1880 December, , Volume XLVI, Number CCLXXVIII, page 752:
  • From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----