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Cauldron vs Null - What's the difference?

cauldron | null |

As nouns the difference between cauldron and null

is that cauldron is a large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void".

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

cauldron

English

Alternative forms

* caldron

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act IV, Scene I:
  • Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
  • * 1997 , J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , Raincoast Books, ISBN 9781551923963, page 102:
  • * 2004 , Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools , Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC (2004), ISBN 9781578633241, unnumbered page:
  • Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.
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  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----