Intestine vs Null - What's the difference?
intestine | null |
(anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p.2:
* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ch.1,
(obsolete) Internal.
* , I.41:
* Milton
* Hume
(obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
* Cudworth
(obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.
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 intestine and null
is that intestine is (anatomy|often pluralized) the alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective intestine
is domestic; taking place within a given country or region.intestine
English
(wikipedia intestine)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , as Etymology 2, below.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bowel * gut * tharmDerived terms
* intestinal * gastrointestinal * large intestine * small intestineSee also
* entrail * innard * colonEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded.
- Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
- When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.
- Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.
- an intestine strugglebetween authority and liberty
- Everything labours under an intestine necessity.
- (Cowper)
null
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.