Mister vs Null - What's the difference?
mister | null |
Title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also (often parent to young child) referring to a man whose name is unknown.
* 1855 , George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition , J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:
* 1908 , Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story , The McClure Company, page 90:
(obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
A kind, type of.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) Need (of something).
* :
(obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
* :
(obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
A device that makes or sprays mist.
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 mister and null
is that mister is mister (title conferred on an adult male), especially when referring to anglophones while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mister
English
Etymology 1
Unaccented variant ofNoun
(en noun)- You may sit here, mister .
- Go and ask that mister if you can get your ball out of his garden.
- Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters , here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.
- There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.
Coordinate terms
* (title of adult male) master, mistress, , DoctorEtymology 2
From (etyl) mester, (meister) (et al.), from (etyl) misterium, a medieval conflation of (etyl) .David Wallace,Chaucerian polity: absolutist lineages and associational forms in England and Italy, Stanford University Press, 1997
Noun
(en noun)- The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, / To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd.
- And thenne the grene knyghte kneled doune / and dyd hym homage with his swerd / thenne said the damoisel me repenteth grene knyghte of your dommage / and of youre broders dethe the black knyghte / for of your helpe I had grete myster / For I drede me sore to passe this forest / Nay drede you not sayd the grene knyghte / for ye shal lodge with me this nyghte / and to morne I shalle helpe you thorou this forest
- It was by Merlyns auyse said the knyghte / As for hym sayd kynge Carados / I wylle encountre with kynge bors / and ye wil rescowe me whan myster is / go on said they al / we wil do all that we may
Verb
(en verb)- As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; / Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.
Derived terms
* demisterReferences
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.