Knell vs Null - What's the difference?
knell | null |
to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
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 knell and null
is that knell is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb knell
is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.knell
English
Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
Derived terms
* death knellnull
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.