Mourning vs Null - What's the difference?
mourning | null |
The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation.
Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) , Chapter 23
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 19, author=Kerry Brown, work=The Guardian
, title= The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black).
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 88:
Drapes or coverings associated with mourning.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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 mourning and null
is that mourning is the act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb mourning
is .mourning
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- "My greatest wish now," she added, "is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning ; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it."
Kim Jong-il obituary, passage=Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years.}}
- ‘I'm bored. I can't go out anywhere because it's too soon and I have to wear this disgusting mourning .’
- The houses to their tops with black were spread, / And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.
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.