Marrow vs Null - What's the difference?
marrow | null |
(lb) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(lb) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
*1847 , Sir (Robert Hermann Schomburgk), "Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados", Bentley's Miscellany , Vol XXII, London: Richard Bentley, p.37:
*:The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow , were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
The essence; the best part.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It takes from our achievements/ The pith and marrow of our attribute.
*(Thomas Tusser) (1524-1580)
*:Chopping and changing I cannot commend, / With thief or his marrow , for fear of ill end.
(Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
(Scotland) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
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 marrow and null
is that marrow is (lb) the substance inside bones which produces blood cells or marrow can be (geordie|informal) a friend, pal, buddy, mate while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.marrow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mary, marow, marowe, , Icelandic (m), and also Russian ("brain").Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bone marrow * marrowboneEtymology 2
From (etyl) margr.Alternative forms
* marraNoun
(en noun)- Cheers marrow !
References
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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.