Fountain vs Null - What's the difference?
fountain | null |
(label) A spring, natural source of water.
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain , and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
(label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
(label) A soda fountain.
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
* (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
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 fountain and null
is that fountain is (label) a spring, natural source of water while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb fountain
is to flow or gush as if from a fountain.fountain
English
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Synonyms
* fount * wellspringDerived terms
* fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountainVerb
(en verb)- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
External links
* (wikipedia "fountain")Anagrams
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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.