Laicize vs Null - What's the difference?
laicize | null |
To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
To reduce from clergy to layman.
To convert to lay status.
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 a verb laicize
is to convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.laicize
English
Verb
(laiciz)- They will laicise each of the schools in the district.
- Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.
- The soup kitchen laicised , it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.
null
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.