Crest vs Null - What's the difference?
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A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
(heraldry): A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
The upper curve of a horse's neck.
The ridge or top of a wave.
The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
The top line of a slope or embankment.
A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
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Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
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To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
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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
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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 an acronym crest
is (military) the five types of verbal support used to enhance an (oral) presentation: comparisons, reasons, examples, statistics, testimony.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.crest
English
(wikipedia crest)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
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Synonyms
* (skin on head of birds) comb, cockscombCoordinate terms
* (skin on head of birds) caruncle, snood, wattleVerb
(en verb)- His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world.
- groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow
- Like as the shining sky in summer's night, / Is crested with lines of fiery light.
Anagrams
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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.