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Masculine vs Null - What's the difference?

masculine | null |

As nouns the difference between masculine and null

is that masculine is (grammar) the masculine gender while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective masculine

is of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.

masculine

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
  • Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
  • * :
  • Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
  • Belonging to males; typically used by males.
  • “John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.
  • Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
  • * :
  • That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
  • * :
  • a masculine church.
  • (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
  • # (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
  • The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German.
  • # (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
  • German uses the masculine of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''.
  • Synonyms

    * (of the male sex) male * (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender) manly, virile

    Antonyms

    * (of the male sex) female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender) emasculated, unmanly, epicene and effeminate * (grammar) feminine, neuter

    Derived terms

    * masculinely * masculineness * masculinity * masculinization * demasculinization * emasculate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The masculine gender.
  • *
  • (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
  • *
  • That which is masculine.
  • *
  • A man.
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  • Anagrams

    * * ----

    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 ----