Ukase vs Null - What's the difference?
ukase | null |
An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
* Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
* 1805 , The Times , 6 May 1805, page 3, col. C:
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 704:
(figuratively) Any absolutist order and/or arrogant proclamation
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
* 2008 , Stephen Burt, "Kick Over the Scenery", London Review of Books , July 2008:
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 ukase and null
is that ukase is (ukase) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ukase
English
Alternative forms
* ukaz/Ukaz * UkaseNoun
(en noun)- Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories
- An Ukase , it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.
- The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution.
- I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase ?
- It is a short step from discovering that the world we know is a fake or a cheat to discovering that human beings are themselves factitious: that we are robots, ‘simulacra’ (the title of one of Dick’s novels), ‘just reflex machines’, ‘repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over’ in accordance with biological or economic ukases .
See also
* decree * edict * ("ukase" on Wikipedia) ----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.