Darken vs Null - What's the difference?
darken | null |
To make dark or darker by reducing light.
* Bible, Exodus x. 15
To become dark or darker (having less light).
To make dark or darker in colour.
To become dark or darker in colour.
To render gloomy, darker in mood
* Shakespeare
To become gloomy, darker in mood
To blind, impair eyesight
* Bible, Rom xi. 10
To be blinded, loose clear vision
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2
* Francis Bacon
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
* Shakespeare
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 a verb darken
is to make dark or darker by reducing light.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.darken
English
Verb
(en verb)- They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .
- With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.
- Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.
- I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Derived terms
* darkener * darken someone's doorSynonyms
* blackenAnagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbsnull
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.
