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Vessel vs Null - What's the difference?

vessel | null |

As nouns the difference between vessel and null

is that vessel is (nautical) any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb vessel

is (obsolete|transitive) to put into a vessel.

vessel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
  • * 1719 ,
  • But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
  • A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
  • A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
  • * Bible, Acts ix. 15
  • He is a chosen vessel unto me.
  • * Milton
  • [The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.
  • * Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
  • I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
  • (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
  • Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * broken vessel * empty vessels make the most sound * lightvessel * microvessel * pressure vessel * reaction vessel * unvessel * weaker vessel

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To put into a vessel.
  • (Francis Bacon)

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    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 ----