Mort vs Null - What's the difference?
mort | null |
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
* Sir Walter Scott
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
A great quantity or number.
* Charles Dickens
(internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
(slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
* Ben Jonson
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 mort and null
is that mort is roach; a small fish while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mort
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
Derived terms
* mort cloth * mort stoneEtymology 2
Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".Noun
- There was a mort of merrymaking.
Etymology 3
Shortening of (mortal).Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* immort English clippingsEtymology 4
Uncertain.Etymology 5
Noun
(en noun)- Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
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.