Gillian vs Null - What's the difference?
gillian | null |
. Medieval variant of Julian and Juliana, revived and quite popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
* 1591 William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors : Act III, Scene I:
*:: Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such a store
* 1994 Floyd Skloot: Summer Blue . Story Line press 1994. ISBN 0934257086 page 98:
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 gillian and null
is that gillian is (obsolete) a girl, especially a wanton; a gill while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gillian
English
Alternative forms
* JillianProper noun
(en-proper noun).- Dromio of Ephesus . Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian , Ginn!
- Dromio of Syracuse . Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! - - -
- "Just Jill, I'm afraid." "Would you prefer if it was Gillian'?" "Oh, I think so. '''Gillian''' sounds so much fancier." "Fancy?" Terrence said. He smiled at her. "Or perhaps it sounds flashy?" "Royal," Richard said. "Flowery," Terrence added. "You could say '''Gillian''' was more flowery. That would fit. What about you, Corrie, what does it sound like to you?" "Rich," Corrie glanced at Jill. "' Gillian sounds richer than Jill."
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.