Pinion vs Null - What's the difference?
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A wing.
* , II.v
* Alexander Pope
* 1839 ,
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
* , III.xii
A moth of the genus Lithophane .
(obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
(lb) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
* 1577 , (Barnabe Googe) (translator), (Konrad Heresbach) (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie , book iv (1586), page 169:
* 1641–2 , Henry Best (author), Donald Woodward (editor), The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642: With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure , (Oxford University Press)/(British Academy) (1984), ISBN 0197260292 (10), ISBN 9780197260296 (13),
* ibidem ,
* 1665–7 , (Abraham Cowley), The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Di?cour?es by way of E??ays, in Ver?e and Pro?e”, essay 9: ‘The ?hortne?s of Life and uncertainty of Riches’, closing verses, verse 3 (
* 1727 , Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:
* 1849 , Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:
(lb) To bind the arms of any one, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding; to shackle.
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#* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
# To bind fast to something, or together.
The smallest gear in a gear drive train.
* 1844 ,
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 pinion and null
is that pinion is a wing or pinion can be the smallest gear in a gear drive train while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb pinion
is (lb) to cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.pinion
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pignon, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Therefore do nimble-pinion' d doves draw Love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
- Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.
- Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.
- (Johnson)
- An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither / He sends so poor a pinion of his wing
- (Ainsworth)
Verb
(en verb) :; (lb)- They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.
page 115:
- When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.
page 129:
- The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.
page 138):
- Suppo?e, thou Fortune could to tamene?s bring, // And clip or pinion her wing; // Suppo?e thou could’?t on Fate ?o far prevail // As not to cut off thy Entail.
- The two old ducks…being pinioned , could not fly away.
- They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.
citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned , and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
- Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion' d at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.
- I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.
Derived terms
* * *References
* “Pinion, v.'']” listed on page 883/2–3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. , 1908) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) pignon.Noun
(en noun)- A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
Derived terms
* rack and pinion English terms with transferred sensesnull
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.