Stanch vs Null - What's the difference?
stanch | null |
To stop the flow of.
* Francis Bacon
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
* Bible, Luke viii. 44
To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
* Emerson
To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
That which stanches or checks.
A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Strong and tight; sound; firm.
* Evelyn
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
* Prior
Close; secret; private.
* John Locke
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 stanch and null
is that stanch is that which stanches or checks while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb stanch
is to stop the flow of.As an adjective stanch
is strong and tight; sound; firm.stanch
English
Alternative forms
* staunchVerb
(es)- A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
- Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
- Immediately her issue of blood stanched .
- His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
Noun
(es)- (Knight)
Adjective
(er)- a stanch ship
- One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
- a stanch''' churchman; a '''stanch friend or adherent
- In politics I hear you're stanch .
- this to be kept stanch
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.