Jasper vs Null - What's the difference?
jasper | null |
(obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
(mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
Jasperware pottery.
(UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
(US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
* 1975 , Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 122:
* 1968 , Charles Portis, True Grit , The Saturday Evening Post
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 a proper noun jasper
is , an english variant of caspar.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.jasper
English
(wikipedia jasper)Etymology 1
From (etyl) jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from (etyl) iaspis, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* Jasper National Park * jasper opal * jasperated * jasperite * jasperize * jasperoid * jasperous * jasperware * jaspery * jaspidean * lavender jasper * xyloid jasperSee also
* jasperwareEtymology 2
From the male personal name Jasper .Noun
(en noun)- Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper .
- “That jasper ,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
- "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."
Anagrams
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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.