Rhyme vs Null - What's the difference?
rhyme | null |
(obsolete) Number.
(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
(countable) A word that rhymes with another.
# (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
(uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form).
(linguistics)
(obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
(ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
* 1742 , , The Dunciad , book 4, lines 101-102:
Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
(reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
To put words together so that they rhyme.
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 rhyme and null
is that rhyme is (obsolete) number while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb rhyme
is (obsolete) to number; count; reckon.rhyme
English
(wikipedia rhyme)Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme .
- Tennyson’s rhymes
- Norse poetry is littered with rhymes''' like "'''s'''ól ... '''s unnan".
- Rap makes use of rhymes such as "money ... honey" and "nope ... dope".
- "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
- The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme .
Hyponyms
* stave-rhyme, end rhyme * internal rhyme, cross rhyme * half rhyme, near rhyme: ** pararhyme, slant rhyme * full rhyme, perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhymeDerived terms
* rhyme or reason * eye rhyme * female rhyme * male rhyme * rhyme royal * sight rhyme * nursery rhymeVerb
- There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side,
- Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
- "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".
- "Mug" and "rug" rhyme .
- "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- I rewrote it to make it rhyme .
Derived terms
* rhyme off * rhyming slangnull
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.