Cynosure vs Null - What's the difference?
cynosure | null |
Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.
(figuratively) That which serves to guide or direct; a guiding star.
Something that is the center of attention; an object that serves as a focal point of attraction and admiration.
*1852 , (Alice Cary), Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West :
*:The rooms were brilliant with lights and flowers, and gaiety and beauty, and intellect; and the lately shrinking country girl was the cynosure of all eyes---the most envied, the most dreaded, the most admired, the most loved.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 306:
*:With anglophobia driving out anglophilia, the king – as during the Seven Years War – came to represent the very cynosure of patriotic zeal.
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 cynosure and null
is that cynosure is ursa minor or polaris, the north star, used as a guide by navigators while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cynosure
English
Noun
(en noun)- let faith be your cynosure to walk by
See also
*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.