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Hoar vs Null - What's the difference?

hoar | null |

As nouns the difference between hoar and null

is that hoar is a white or greyish-white colour while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective hoar

is of a white or greyish-white colour.

As a verb hoar

is (obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.

hoar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A white or greyish-white colour.
  • (BDCADC)
  • Hoariness; antiquity.
  • * Burke
  • Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  • * Spenser
  • hoar waters
  • (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  • * 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
  • This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
    Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
    Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
    Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
  • * Byron
  • old trees with trunks all hoar
  • (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
  • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

    Derived terms

    * hoarfrost * hoary * hoared

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
  • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----