Muse vs Null - What's the difference?
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A source of inspiration.
(archaic) A poet; a bard.
To become lost in thought, to ponder.
To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
* (seeCites)
To think on; to meditate on.
* (rfdate) Thomson
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= To wonder at.
An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
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 muse and null
is that muse is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.muse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .Noun
(s)- (Milton)
Usage notes
The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .Etymology 2
First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.Verb
(mus)- Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.
- He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) musse. See muset.Noun
(en noun)- Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)
Anagrams
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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.