Sconce vs Null - What's the difference?
sconce | null |
A light fixture.
* Evelyn
* Dryden
A head or a skull.
* Shakespeare
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
A piece of armour for the head; headpiece; helmet.
* Shakespeare
(label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
* Milton
(label) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
The circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
(label) A squinch.
A fragment of a floe of ice.
A fixed seat or shelf.
(label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.
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 sconce and null
is that sconce is a light fixture or sconce can be a type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sconce
is (label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct or sconce can be (label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.sconce
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Editionensconce] [http://www.alphadictionary.com/about/aboutus.html The Lexiteria & alphaDictionaryCognate with (abscond).
Noun
(en noun)- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
- Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
- to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel
- (Johnson)
- I must get a sconce for my head.
See also
*Verb
(sconc)Alternative forms
* skonceNoun
(en noun)- No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
- one that must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches
- (Kane)
Derived terms
* ensconceVerb
(sconc)See also
*References
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.