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monogram | null |

As nouns the difference between monogram and null

is that monogram is (obsolete) a picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch or monogram can be (obsolete|rare) a sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry or monogram can be a design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb monogram

is to mark something with a monogram.

monogram

English

Alternative forms

* monogramme (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) monogramme, from the Classical (etyl) adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured (etyl) * .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.
  • References

    * “ †monogram, n.''¹]” listed in the '' [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    Etymology 2

    Formed as , by analogy with epigram.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, rare) A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.
  • References

    * “ †monogram, n.''²]” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    Etymology 3

    The noun derives from the post-Classical (etyl) monogrammum, itself from the (etyl) ; compare the (etyl) and (etyl) monogramme, as well as the (etyl) monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution.
  • References
    * “ monogram, n.''³]” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    Verb

    (monogramm)
  • To mark something with a monogram.
  • References
    * “ monogram, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----