Luster vs Null - What's the difference?
luster | null |
Shine, polish or sparkle.
* Addison
By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
* Sir H. Wotton
Refinement, polish or quality.
A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
To gleam, have luster.
To give luster, distinguish.
To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.
A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.
* , II.4.2.ii:
One who lusts.
* Bible, Paul
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 luster and null
is that luster is chandelier while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.luster
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster .
- The scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre , to the noonday sky.
- ''After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster .
- His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre .
- ''He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.
- (Alexander Pope)
Antonyms
* (brilliance) (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the aboveNoun
(en noun)- Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it; upon whose authority, for many following lusters , it was much debased and quite out of request […].
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor the lusters after mankind shall obtain the kingdom of God.
Anagrams
* ----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.