Termagant vs Null - What's the difference?
termagant | null |
A quarrelsome, scolding woman, especially one who is old and shrewish.
* 1663 ,
* 1907 , Isaac Flagg, Plato: the Apology and Crito , p. 196.:
* 1970 , Robertson Davies, Fifth Business :
(obsolete) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person, whether male or female.
* Bale (1543)
* Macaulay
Quarrelsome and scolding or censorious; shrewish.
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford :
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 a proper noun termagant
is (archaic) an imaginary deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshiped by muslims.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.termagant
English
(wikipedia termagant)Noun
(en noun)- [...] Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; [...]
- The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant .
- Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment – these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant , but reasonable, logical, and untiring.
- This terrible termagant , this Nero, this Pharaoh.
- The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant .
Synonyms
* (quarrelsome woman) shrew, viragoAdjective
(en adjective)- These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.
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.