Mateship vs Null - What's the difference?
mateship | null |
(countable, and, uncountable, nautical) The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate.
* 1841 , William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers? Edinburgh Journal , Volume 10,
(countable, whaling, obsolete) A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition.
* 1835 , Francis Hilliard, American Law: The Formative Years ,
(uncountable) Fellowship; companionship.
* 1898 , G. Firth Scott, The Last Lemurian ,
(uncountable, Australia, NZ) Friendship, particularly between men, such as develops in shared adversity; solidarity.
* 1997 , Anna Wierzbicka, Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese ,
* 2004 , Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger And National Mythology ,
* 2009 , Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema ,
* 2011 , Rod Giblett, People and Places of Nature and Culture ,
(countable, zoology, psychology, anthropology) A relationship based on mating.
* 1942 , Fred August Moss, Edward Lee Thorndike, Comparative Psychology ,
* 2005 , David J. Buller, Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology And The Persistent Quest For Human Nature ,
* 2010 , A. Irving Hallowell, 15: The Protocultural Foundations of Human Adaptation'', Yehudi A. Cohen (editor), ''Human Adaptation: The Biosocial Background ,
* 2012', Dietrich Klusmann, Wolfgang Berner, ''Chapter 14: Sexual Motivation in '''Mateships an Sexual Conflict'', Todd K. Shackelford, Aaron T. Goetz (editors), ''The Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans ,
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 mateship and null
is that mateship is (countable|and|uncountable|nautical) the post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mateship
English
Noun
(wikipedia mateship) (en-noun)page 263,
- Paul Jones profited by his brother?s position and counsel to improve himself in navigation and other professional studies, and was so successful in the endeavour, that he was deemed worthy of being appointed, on his return to Whitehaven, to a third mateship in a vessel in the slave-trade.
page 122,
- as, for instance, the contract termed mateship , by which one whaling-ship meeting another forms a partnership in the proceeds of the expedition.
page 6,
- “Don?t mind if I do,” I answered, and thus begun a mateship that in the course of the next few months was to yield to each of us a fairly big experience of adventure, and, what was more acceptable to me, a good round sum in cash.
page 117,
- In traditional Australian culture, “mateship ” was expected to bind people not only with their “best mates” or their “great mates” but also with their fellow-miners, fellow-shearers, fellow-“diggers”, fellow-soldiers, or fellow-footballers, and this expectation is one of this culture?s most enduring and characteristic features.19
page 77,
- While the camaraderie of war is usually an unspoken assumption, it seems peculiar that mateship , usually considered to be the core of the digger ethos and the ‘spirit of the Anzac’, barely appears in the diggers? own expressions at this time.
page 186,
- A significant element of masculinity in Australian cultural history, and therefore Australian film, is mateship'.In times of war, ' mateship was a measure of the quality of relationship, as a mate was one whom a soldier would happily accompany into the jungle; that is, one who would be dependable and able to offer support.
page 127,
- The bush is the crucible of Australian national identity because it is here that mateship , that linchpin of Australian national identity, was forged.
page 370,
- The mateships' of the three last-named animals are solitary, though in the case of wolves, the separated members of various ' mateships gather in packs during the winter months.
page 259,
- Further, in most cultures without systems of codified laws, long-term mateships' are ritually sanctioned by the community. If we are not to have too provincial a conception of marriage, these ' mateships should also count as marriages.
page 164,
- In Homo sapiens we find two types of polygamous mateships', polygyny and polyandry, and social structures based on these are ordinarily called “families.” Relatively rare in man in an institutionalized form, polyandrous ' mateships appear to be absent in infrahuman primates.
page 233,
- The most frequent conflict within human mateships is the conflict between male sexual persistence and female sexual resistance.
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.