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Hieroglyphic vs Null - What's the difference?

hieroglyphic | null |

As nouns the difference between hieroglyphic and null

is that hieroglyphic is a writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As adjectives the difference between hieroglyphic and null

is that hieroglyphic is of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols while null is having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

hieroglyphic

English

typical of the Graeco-Roman period.

Alternative forms

* hieroglyphick

Noun

(wikipedia hieroglyphic) (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) a writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus
  • any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph
  • (by extension) undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols
  • hieroglyphic writing
    hieroglyphic obelisk
  • difficult to decipher
  • 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 ----