Sheik vs Null - What's the difference?
sheik | null |
The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
An Islamic religious clergy; the leader of an Islamic religious order.
(some Arab Gulf countries)
* 1939 , , Coming Up for Air , part 1, chapter 1:
(slang) An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
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 sheik and null
is that sheik is the leader of an arab village, family or small tribe while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sheik
English
Alternative forms
* sheikh * shaykhNoun
(en noun)- When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik , is definitely at an end.
Usage notes
The use for a religious leader is colloquial as a means of respect. There is no official title.Anagrams
* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----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.