Fane vs Null - What's the difference?
fane | null |
(obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
* 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne ,
A temple or sacred place.
* 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16,
* 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau ,
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, title= * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis,
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 fane
is .As an adjective fane
is faded.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fane
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.Noun
(en noun)page 541,
- The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 64,
- Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
page 78,
- The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
page 458,
- And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.
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.