Gilt vs Null - What's the difference?
gilt | null |
(uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(countable, finance) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
Golden coloured.
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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 gilt and null
is that gilt is (uncountable) gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding or gilt can be a young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective gilt
is golden coloured.As a verb gilt
is (gild).gilt
English
Etymology 1
Cf. gold and German GeldNoun
(en-noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}
Etymology 2
See .Verb
(head)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.