Coffin vs Null - What's the difference?
coffin | null |
An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
(obsolete) A basket.
* Wycliffe's Bible
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(Webster 1913)
To place in a coffin.
* 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:
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 coffin and null
is that coffin is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb coffin
is to place in a coffin.coffin
English
(wikipedia coffin)Alternative forms
* cophin (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).
- Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
- (Nares)
Usage notes
The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.Synonyms
* casket (US)Derived terms
* coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinmentVerb
(en verb)- The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
Synonyms
* encoffinnull
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.