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Tisane vs Null - What's the difference?

tisane | null |

As nouns the difference between tisane and null

is that tisane is a medicinal drink, originally made from barley soaked in water; a herbal tea while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

tisane

English

Alternative forms

* ptisan * ptisane * tisan

Noun

(en noun)
  • A medicinal drink, originally made from barley soaked in water; a herbal tea.
  • * 1831 , Alexander Macaulay, A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use , 2nd edition, page 454:
  • Ptisan . A diluent drink which makes a great figure in the dietetic precepts of the ancients.
  • * 1928 , (Agatha Christie), (The Mystery of the Blue Train) :
  • “Neither,” said Poirot, “I shall go to bed and take a tisane . The expected has happened […].”
  • * 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society 2010, p. 5:
  • The sick people would take away also some herbs for their ptisan , some wine and other comforts […].
  • * 1993 , (Will Self), My Idea of Fun :
  • As soon as he had opened the door he worked his way back to his high-backed Queen Anne armchair, where he picked up his bone-china cup and took a sip of a rarefied tisane .

    Anagrams

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    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 ----