Kindle vs Null - What's the difference?
kindle | null |
To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= (figuratively) To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
(obsolete) To bring forth young; to give birth.
* (Shakespeare)
* Holland
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 kindle and null
is that kindle is (obsolete) a group of kittens while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb kindle
is to start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc).kindle
English
Hypernyms
* clowder, glaringVerb
(kindl)- And then it was that I first perceived the danger in which I stood; for there was no hope of kindling a light, and I doubted now whether even in the light I could ever have done much to dislodge the great slab of slate.
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- The poor beast had but lately kindled .
Synonyms
* (to start a fire): ignite * (to arouse): arouse, inspireAntonyms
* (to start a fire): douse, extinguish * (to arouse): dampenAnagrams
* * * English collective nounsnull
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.