Postiche vs Null - What's the difference?
postiche | null |
Any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig.
* 1993 , Patsy Baker, Wigs & Makeup for Theatre, Television, and Film , page 150
* 2001 , Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A cultural history of facial hair , page 17
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 postiche and null
is that postiche is any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.postiche
English
Noun
(en-noun)- This type of postiche is called a 'combination wig' because it mixes hand-made work with machine-made work.
- both kings and queens enjoyed wearing lavish fake beards made of gold and silver called postiches , which were strapped behind the ears like a Halloween mask.
Hyponyms
* (false hair) hairpiece, toupee, weave, wignull
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.