Lord vs Null - What's the difference?
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(label) The master of the servants of a household; (label) the master of a feudal manor
*c. 950 , (Lindisfarne Gospels), Matt. xxiv. 46
*:Eadig ðe]] ðone miððy cymes hlaferd his on-fand sua [[doing, doende.
*1611 , (King James Bible), Matt. xxiv. 46
*:Ble??ed]] is that finde [[so, ?o doing.
*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , iii. ii. 167 ff.
*:Por . ...But now, I was the Lord
*:of this faire man?ion]], of my [[servants, ?eruants,
*:Queene]] oer [[myself, my ?elfe...
*1794 , E. Christian in (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England) , II. 418
*:Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.
#(label) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
#*831 , charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts , 445
#*:Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.
#*1594 , (William Shakespeare), "(The Rape of Lucrece)"
#*:...thou worthie Lord ,
#*:Of that vnworthie]] wife that [[greets, greeteth thee
#*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), (The Taming of the Shrew) (1623), v. ii. 131 f.
#*:Pet. Katherine , I charge thee, tell the?e]] [[head-strong, head-?trong women,
#*:What dutie]] they doe owe their Lords and [[husbands, hu?bands!
#*1611 , (King James Bible), Gen. xviii. 12
#*:Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe]], , my lord being old [[also, al?o?
#*1816 , (Jane Austen), , III. xvi. 300
#*:Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.
#(label) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
#*ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 601 f.
#*:Als]] oure lauerd has [[heaven, heuen in hand
#*:Sua]] [[should, suld man be lauerd of land.
#*1480 , Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316
#*:All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte]] [[their, thar houses.
#*ante'' 1637 , (Ben Jonson), ''Sad Shepherd , ii. i. 36
#*:A mightie Lord of Swine!
#*1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro)'s Æneis , xii
#*:Turnus...
#*:Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;
#*:And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord .
#*1874 , J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2
#*:Lord''''', the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘' lord ’.
One possessing similar mastery over others; (label) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler
*c. 893 , Orosius's History , i. i. §13
*:Ohthere sæde his hlaforde , Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...
* 1530 , John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement , 680/1
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , xii. 70
# (label) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
# A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
#* ante 1375 , William of Palerne (1867), l.4539
#* ante'' 1420 , T. Hoccleve, ''De Regimine Principum , 442
#* 1453 , Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2
#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Richard the Second) , iv.i.18
#* 1614 , J. Selden, Titles of Honor , 59
#* 1900 July 21, Daily Express , 5/7
# A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
#* 1526 , W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection , i. sig. Bviiiv
#* 1826 , (Benjamin Disraeli), Vivian Grey , II. iii. iii. 26
One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
* ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 782
* 1398 , John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322
* 1992 November 18, (Larry David), (Seinfeld) , 4.11: "(The Contest)":
# The magnates of a trade or profession
#* 1823 , W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399
(label) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time,
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), Treatise on the Astrolabe , ii. §4:
A hunchback.
*1699 , B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew :
Sixpence.
* 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement , 782/1:
Domineer or act like a lord.
(label) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
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 proper noun lord
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lord
English
(Lord)Noun
(en noun)- It is a pytuouse]] case... whan subjectes rebell [[against, agaynst their naturall lorde .
- Man over men He made not Lord .
- To fare out as fast with his fader to speke, & with lordesse of þat]] [[land, lond.
- Men myghten lordis knowe
- By there]] arraye, from [[other, oþir folke.
- If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord , as Duc]], Marques, Erle, Viscount or [[baron, Baron.
- Princes, and noble Lords :
- What an?wer]] I make to this [[base, ba?e man?
- Our English name Lord , whereby we and the Scots stile]] all such as are of the Greater [[nobility, Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.
- The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord .
- Farre]] excellyng the state of lordes , erles, dukes or [[kings, kynges.
- The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.
- O wityng bath]] [[good, god and ill ?ee suld be lauerds at ?our will.
- The sonne]] is the lorde of [[planets, planetes.
- 1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iii
- Love is Lord of all.
- But are you still master of your domain?
- I am king of the county. You?
- Lord of the manor.
- Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!
- The assendent]], & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan hows of the [[ascendant, assendent.
- Lord , a very crooked, deformed... Person.
- Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord ’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.
Derived terms
* lord mesne, lord paramount, lord in gross, lord of the manor * House of Lords, Lords Temporal, Lords Spiritual * drunk as a lord * lord-in-waiting, lord of the bedchamber, lord superior * lords of creation * warlord * landlord * lord-fishSynonyms
* drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereignSee also
* ladyVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* lord it overReferences
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.