Mandarin vs Null - What's the difference?
mandarin | null |
(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
(often, pejorative) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
A mandarin duck.
(informal, British) A senior civil servant.
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 58:
*:A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
* 2007 , Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26:
*:Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin , and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].
A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata .
An orange colour.
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 mandarin and null
is that mandarin is mandarin (person) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mandarin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mandarim, mandarij, from (etyl) menteri, manteri, and its source, (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* mandarinate * mandarinism * mandarinshipAdjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.Noun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "mandarin")Anagrams
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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.