Stepmother vs Null - What's the difference?
stepmother | null |
The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
A viola, especially Viola tricolor , heartsease.
*1974 , Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book , Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:
*:The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother , or love-in-idelness.
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 stepmother and null
is that stepmother is the wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stepmother
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
In Western heterosexual couples, this is typically after after the divorce or death of the birth mother; in polygamous marriages and lesbian couples, the term may be used for co-mother or nonbirth motherSynonyms
* stepmomHypernyms
* stepparentSee also
* * ex-stepfather * ex-stepmother * ex-stepparent * stepbrother * stepchild * stepdaughter * stepfamily * stepfather * stepparent * stepsibling * stepsister * stepsonnull
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.