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Sacrament vs Null - What's the difference?

sacrament | null |

As nouns the difference between sacrament and null

is that sacrament is (islam) the rites in the five pillars of islam while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

sacrament

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Islam) The rites in the five pillars of Islam.
  • * 1978 , Kenneth Cragg, Islam and the Muslim , page 62
  • * 1992 , Jeffrey J. Coonjohn, Stories from the front, Page 62
  • (Christianity) A sacred act or ceremony in Christianity. In Roman Catholic theology, a sacrament is defined as "an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace."
  • The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide his people through their portion of sorrows.
  • The oath of allegiance taken by soldiers in Ancient Rome; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll take the sacrament on 't.

    See also

    * The Roman Catholic and Eastern churches list seven sacraments: *
  • baptism
  • *
  • confirmation
  • *
  • communion, Mass, or Eucharist
  • *
  • penance
  • *
  • extreme unction
  • *
  • holy orders, or ordination
  • *
  • matrimony
  • * The Protestant churches list two sacraments: *
  • baptism
  • *
  • Lord's Supper
  • * anointing of the sick * Extreme Unction * eucharist * Eucharistic liturgy * Holy Eucharist * Holy Sacrament * last rites * Liturgy * Lord's Supper * sacrament of the Eucharist * (wikipedia "sacrament") ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----