Vault vs Null - What's the difference?
vault | null |
An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
* Gray
A structure resembling a vault, especially (poetic) that formed by the sky.
* Shakespeare
* 1985', God said, ‘Let there be a ' vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’ — Genesis 1:6 (New Jerusalem Bible)
A secure, enclosed area, especially an underground room used for burial, or to store valuables, wine etc.
* Sandys
* Jonathan Swift
To build as, or cover with a vault.
* Sir Walter Scott
(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.
An act of vaulting; a leap or jump.
(gymnastics) An event in gymanstics performed on a vaulting horse.
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 vault and null
is that vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy or vault can be an act of vaulting; a leap or jump while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb vault
is to build as, or cover with a vault or vault can be (ambitransitive) to jump or leap over.vault
English
(wikipedia vault)Etymology 1
From (etyl) volte (modern .Noun
(en noun)- the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
- that heaven's vault should crack
- The bank kept their money safe in a large vault .
- Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
- the silent vaults of death
- to banish rats that haunt our vault
Derived terms
* barrel vault * cloister vault * compound vault * cross vault * decapartite vault * dodecapartite vault * domical vault * groin vault * oblique vault * octopartite vault * panel vault * polygonal vault * quadripartite vault * quinquepartite vault * ribbed vault * segmental vault * septempartite vault * sexpartite vault * star vault * stilted vault * tripartite vault * Welsh vaultVerb
(en verb)- The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) frequentative form of (etyl) volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.Verb
(en verb)- The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
Derived terms
* vaulter * vaultingNoun
(en noun)See also
* pole vault * vaulting horsenull
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.