Prow vs Null - What's the difference?
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(nautical) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary – prow [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prow%5B1%5D]
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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 nouns the difference between prow and null
is that prow is (nautical) the fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself or prow can be while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective prow
is (archaic) brave, valiant, gallant merriam webster’s online dictionary – prow [http://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/prow%5b1%5d].prow
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia prow) From (etyl) (m), from Genoese Italian (m), (m), from (etyl) prora, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.
- We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.
Synonyms
* proreEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) prou, from prode; more at (proud).Adjective
(er)- For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay
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Etymology 3
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.