Crotchet vs Null - What's the difference?
crotchet | null |
(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
(archaic) a whim or a fancy
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
* De Quincey
A forked support; a crotch.
* Dryden
(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
(military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
(printing) A bracket.
to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet
(obsolete) to play music in measured time
(punctuation) bracket
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 crotchet and null
is that crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb crotchet
is to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.crotchet
English
(wikipedia crotchet)Noun
(en noun)- Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets , thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms
- He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
- The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
Synonyms
* (musical note) quarter note (US)Derived terms
* crotchetyVerb
(en verb)- (Donne)
Noun
(m)Derived terms
*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.