Engine vs Null - What's the difference?
engine | null |
(obsolete) Ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile.
(obsolete) The result of cunning; something ingenious, a contrivance; (in negative senses) a plot, a scheme.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(obsolete) Natural talent; genius.
Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
* Bunyan
* Shakespeare
A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
* 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
A self-powered vehicle, especially a locomotive, used for pulling cars along a track.
(computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
(obsolete) To assault with an engine.
* (rfdate) T. Adams.
(dated) To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels.
(obsolete) To rack; to torture.
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 engine and null
is that engine is (obsolete) ingenuity; cunning, trickery, guile while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb engine
is (obsolete) to assault with an engine.engine
English
(wikipedia engine) (Engines)Noun
(en noun)- Therefore this craftie engine he did frame, / Against his praise to stirre vp enmitye [...].
- You see the ways the fisherman doth take / To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
- Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.
- Flattery must be the most powerful Argument that cou'd be used to Human Creatures. Making use of this bewitching Engine , they extoll'd the Excellency of our Nature above other Animals [...].
- a graphics engine'''; a physics '''engine
Synonyms
* motorDerived terms
* aero engine * aircraft engine * diesel engine * engine driver * engine trouble * engineer * fire engine * four-stroke engine * jet engine * marine engine * search engine * steam engine * tank engine * two-stroke engineVerb
(engin)- To engine and batter our walls.
- Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
- (Chaucer)
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* * English refractory feminine rhymesnull
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.