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usher | null |

As nouns the difference between usher and null

is that usher is a person, in a church, cinema etc, who escorts people to their seats while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb usher

is to guide people to their seats.

usher

English

(wikipedia usher)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
  • A male escort at a wedding.
  • A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
  • (dated) An underteacher, or assistant master, in a school.
  • Derived terms

    * usherette

    Verb

  • To guide people to their seats.
  • * 1836 , , Sketches by Boz , "The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain."
  • Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;
  • To accompany or escort (someone).
  • * 1898 , , The Rise of the Dutch Republic , page 509
  • Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered .
  • (figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
  • * 1912 , Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750 , page 31
  • Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.
  • (figuratively) to lead or guide somewhere
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 29 , author=Keith Jackson , title=SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , work=Daily Record citation , page= , passage=McCoist unexpectedly ushered back a defender of his own with Kirk Broadfoot taking over from Steven Whittaker. There was, of course, another change, Kyle Bartley stepping in at centre-half to replace suspended Dorin Goian.}}

    Derived terms

    * usher in

    Anagrams

    * *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----