Pantomime vs Null - What's the difference?
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* Tylor
(historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
(UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, and fairy-tale plots.
Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
* 1851 ,
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 26:
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=October 20
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To gesture without speaking.
To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
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 pantomime and null
is that pantomime is pantomime (type of entertainment where players act out ideas without use of their voice) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pantomime
English
(wikipedia pantomime)Noun
(en noun)- [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
- A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
- In pantomime , Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
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Derived terms
* pantoSee also
* sign languageSee also
* dumb showVerb
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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.
