Vein vs Null - What's the difference?
vein | null |
(anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
(used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp
(botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
(zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
* Jonathan Swift
A style, tendency, or quality.
* Francis Bacon
* Waller
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
* Milton
* Isaac Newton
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 vein and null
is that vein is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vein
English
(wikipedia vein)Noun
(en noun)- ...in the same vein ...
- He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
- The play is in a satirical vein .
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
- down to the veins of earth
- Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .
See also
* artery * blood vessel * capillary * circulatory system * phlebitis * vena cavaExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----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.