Ripen vs Null - What's the difference?
ripen | null |
to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
* 1918 , (John Muir), Steep Trails Chapter XII
*:...the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
To approach or come to perfection.
To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
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 ripen
is to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ripen
English
(Ripening)Verb
(en verb)- Grapes ripen in the sun.
- When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton.
Derived terms
* ripeningAnagrams
* English ergative verbsnull
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.