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lewis | null |

As nouns the difference between lewis and null

is that lewis is a cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in freemasonry while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

lewis

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • of Norman origin, the English form of Louis.
  • ; anglicized form of Llewellyn.
  • The , Scotland.
  • The title given to a partially apprenticed Freemason who is normally the Master or Son of a practicing Freemason; One practising or learning the degrees of Freemasonry after introduction to the degrees and before full induction or before becoming a Worshipful Brother.
  • Derived terms

    * Holstein-Lewis fracture * Lewis acid * Lewis base * Lewisian

    Quotations

    * 1595 William Shakespeare: Third Part of King Henry the Sixth : Act III, Scene III: *: And tell false Edward, thy supposed king, *: That Lewis of France is sending over masquers, *: To revel it with him and his new bride. * 1994 Joseph Heller: Closing Time ISBN 0671746049 page 42: *: They named me Lewis and called me Louie as though my name was Louis, and I never saw the difference until Sammy pointed it out. And even then, I still don't see much difference.

    See also

    * - physical chemist

    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 ----