Sickle vs Null - What's the difference?
sickle | null |
(agriculture) an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops
(agriculture) To cut with a sickle
To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
To assume an abnormal crescent shape. Used of red blood cells.
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 sickle and null
is that sickle is (agriculture) an implement, having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sickle
is (agriculture|transitive) to cut with a sickle.As an adjective sickle
is shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.sickle
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* reap hook * reaping hookSee also
* scytheVerb
(sickl)Derived terms
* sicklernull
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.