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Garnet vs Null - What's the difference?

garnet | null |

As nouns the difference between garnet and null

is that garnet is a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As adjectives the difference between garnet and null

is that garnet is of a dark red colour while null is having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

garnet

English

(wikipedia garnet)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
  • How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet , lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
  • A dark red.
  • Derived terms
    * demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAG
    See also
    (mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvarovite

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of a dark red colour.
  • See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * argent ----

    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 ----