Panacea vs Null - What's the difference?
panacea | null |
A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
Something that will solve all problems.
(obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
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 a proper noun panacea
is (greek god) the goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives) she is a daughter of asclepius and epione.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.panacea
English
Noun
- A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
- There, whether it diuine Tobacco'' were, / Or ''Panachæa'' , or ''Polygony , / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].
Synonyms
* (remedy to cure all disease) catholicon, cure-all * (plant) allheal, woundwortSee also
* nostrum English words prefixed with pan- ----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.