Quern vs Null - What's the difference?
quern | null |
A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones
* 1978 , Robert Nye, Merlin ,
* 2005 , Anne Crone, Ewan Campbell, A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Gloshan, Argyll, 1960 ,
* 2009 , Charles D. Hockensmith, The Millstone Industry ,
To grind; to use a quern .
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* 2000 , Tina Tuohy, 9: Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User'', Moira Donald, Linda Hurcombe (editors), ''Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective ,
* 2009 , , Unleaving'', ''Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales ,
* 2011 , Rachel Pope, Ian Ralston, 17: Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent'', Tom Moore, Thomas Hugh Moore, X. L. Armada (editors), ''Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide ,
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 quern and null
is that quern is a group of four while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.quern
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.
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- MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).
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- Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.
Verb
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- He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.
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- For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning , leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth.
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- Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread.
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- From the osteology, a supposed link between squatting facets and prehistoric women—and by extension the interpretation that women were engaged in querning activity—is not demonstrated for the Iron Age: of the thirteen with the complaint in Deal, Kent, 62 per cent were male (Anderson 1995: table 29).
See also
* quirnnull
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.