Copse vs Null - What's the difference?
copse | null |
A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
* 1798 , , Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey , lines 9–15 (for syntax):
* 1919 , , Valmouth , Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
(horticulture) To trim or cut.
(horticulture) To plant and preserve.
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 copse and null
is that copse is a thicket of small trees or shrubs while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb copse
is (horticulture) to trim or cut.copse
English
Noun
(en noun)- The day is come when I again repose
- Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
- These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
- Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
- Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
- ’Mid groves and copses .
- Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.
Synonyms
* coppiceSee also
* bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard * stand, thicket, wood, woodsVerb
(cops)Anagrams
* copes, scopenull
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.
