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Dowry vs Null - What's the difference?

dowry | null |

As nouns the difference between dowry and null

is that dowry is payment, as property or money, of a bride’s inheritance by her family to the groom or his family at the time of marriagegary ferraro & susan andreatta, cultural anthropology , 8th edn (belmont, cal: wadsworth, 2010), 223 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb dowry

is to bestow a dowry upon.

dowry

English

(wikipedia dowry)

Noun

(dowries)
  • Payment, as property or money, of a bride’s inheritance by her family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.Gary Ferraro & Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology , 8th edn. (Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth, 2010), 223.
  • Antonyms

    * dower * bride price

    Hypernyms

    * marriage portion

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To bestow a dowry upon.
  • * 1999 , Judith Everard, ?Michael C. E. Jones, Charters Duchess Constance Br , Page xvi
  • * 2013 Noreen Giffney, ?Margrit Shildrick, Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference , Page 62
  • * 1911 , Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London , Page 108
  • * 1976 , Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction , Page 19
  • See also

    * glory box * hope chest * trousseau

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----