Bris vs Null - What's the difference?
bris | null |
(label) Ritual male circumcision.
* 1974 , Phillip E. Goble, Everything You Need to Grow a Messianic Synagogue ,
* 1993 , Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus'', ''Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4,
* 2009 , Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America ,
* 2013 , Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies , 2nd Edition,
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 bris and null
is that bris is (label) ritual male circumcision while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bris
English
(wikipedia bris)Noun
page 22,
- This bath symbolizes both a spiritual mikveh (Jewish purification bath) and a spiritual bris (circumcision which makes one a Jew).
page 129,
- The night before the bris', he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say ''kerias shema'' around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the ' bris , were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.
page 155,
- Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.
page 109,
- However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris' would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the '''bris''' is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the ' bris must be postponed.)
Synonyms
* (circumcision) bris milah, brit milahDerived terms
* bris periahAnagrams
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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.