Stilly vs Null - What's the difference?
stilly | null |
silent; calm
* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1879, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Thackeray, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs
* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=Stephen King, title=The Green Mile, chapter=4, edition=Pocket Books, url=
, passage= . . . Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.}}
While still and calm
* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=George A. Lawrence, title=Guy Livingstone;, chapter=, edition=
, passage=She passed away very stilly and painlessly. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Mary Johnston, title=Audrey, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=S.R. Crockett, title=Bog-Myrtle and Peat, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board. }}
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 an adjective stilly
is silent; calm.As an adverb stilly
is while still and calm.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stilly
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(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
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(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.