Lexicographer vs Null - What's the difference?
lexicographer | null |
one who writes or compiles a dictionary
* 1755 A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — , lexicographer, in his seminal dictionary
* 1811 Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do. — , Hints from Horace
* 1860 The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. — , Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
* To the lexicographer, God is simply the word that comes next to go-cart -
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 lexicographer and null
is that lexicographer is one who writes or compiles a dictionary while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lexicographer
English
(wikipedia lexicographer)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dictionariannull
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.