Plume vs Null - What's the difference?
plume | null |
A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
* Milton
The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
* Dryden
A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
* Milton
An upward spray of water or mist.
(geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
(astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
To preen and arrange the feathers of.
* Washington Irving
To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
* Shakespeare
To form a plume.
To write; to pen.
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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 verb plume
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.plume
English
Noun
(en noun)- wings of many a coloured plume
- his high plume , that nodded o'er his head
- ambitious to win from me some plume
Derived terms
* plume grass * plume moth * plume nutmegVerb
(plum)- pluming her wings among the breezy bowers
- He plumes himself on his skill.
- (South)
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Dryden)
- Farewell the plumed troop.
- Smoke plumed from his pipe then slowly settled towards the floor.
- We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it.
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.