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Hearse vs Null - What's the difference?

hearse | null |

As nouns the difference between hearse and null

is that hearse is a hind in the second year of its age while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb hearse

is (dated) to enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

hearse

English

(wikipedia hearse)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hind in the second year of its age.
  • A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
  • A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • underneath this marble hearse
  • * Fairfax
  • Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
  • * Longfellow
  • who lies beneath this sculptured hearse
  • A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse .
  • A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
  • Verb

  • (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
  • References

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----