Oncome vs Null - What's the difference?
oncome | null |
(rare) To arrive; come to; come on.
*1844 , Homerus, The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell :
*1999 , Alfred Corn, Stake: poems, 1972-1992 :
Advent, arrival, approach; onset
*1978 , Edna O'Brien, I hardly knew you :
The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
The setting about of an action; development; progress.
An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
*1881 , American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14 :
*1906 , Appleton's magazine: Volume 7 :
(dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
*1858 , Sir Walter Scott, The bride of Lammermoor :
(dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
(of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
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 oncome and null
is that oncome is advent, arrival, approach; onset while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb oncome
is (rare) to arrive; come to; come on.oncome
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) oncomen, from (etyl) oncuman, .Verb
- This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]
- A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.
- On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
- "She often has oncomes ," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."
- This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes , as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.
Synonyms
* outburst * outgush * advent, arrivalAnagrams
* ----null
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.