Shroud vs Null - What's the difference?
shroud | null |
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
* Sandys
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
* Shakespeare
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
* Byron
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
* Chapman
* Withals
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
To cover with a shroud.
* Francis Bacon
To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Dryden
To take shelter or harbour.
* Milton
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 shroud and null
is that shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb shroud
is to cover with a shroud.shroud
English
(wikipedia shroud)Noun
(en noun)- swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
- a dead man in his shroud
- Jura answers through her misty shroud .
- The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
- a vault, or shroud , as under a church
Verb
(en verb)- The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
- The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
- The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
- One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
- Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
- If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.
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.