Spire vs Null - What's the difference?
spire | null |
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
* 1913 ,
A sharp or tapering point.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=1 A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
* Shakespeare
(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Of a seed, plant etc.: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
* Mortimer
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
(obsolete) To breathe.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A spiral.
(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
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 spire and null
is that spire is or spire can be one of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb spire
is of a seed, plant etc: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate or spire can be (obsolete) to breathe.spire
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Cognate with Dutch spier, German Spier, (Spiere), Danish spir, Norwegian spir, Swedish spira.Noun
(en noun)- Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire , and was breaking it to get the seeds.
citation, passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
- The spire of the church rose high above the town.
- the spire and top of praises
Verb
(spir)- In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre , / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
- It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) spirer, and its source, (etyl) .Verb
(spir)- (Shenstone)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) spire.Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
Anagrams
* ----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.