Mure vs Null - What's the difference?
mure | null |
(obsolete) wall
:— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
(obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
(obsolete) to wall in or fortify
(obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
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 a verb mure
is to die.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
- Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
- Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
References
* Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.Adjective
(-)Verb
- (Spenser)
- The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).
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.