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Vermilion vs Null - What's the difference?

vermilion | null |

As nouns the difference between vermilion and null

is that vermilion is a vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective vermilion

is having a brilliant red colour.

As a verb vermilion

is to color or paint vermilion.

vermilion

English

Alternative forms

* vermillion (considered a misspelling by some authorities)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide.
  • A vivid red or slightly orange colour.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , I, struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermilion }}
  • A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
  • A red skin of the lip or its border with the skin of the face.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a brilliant red colour.
  • Having the color of the vermilion dye.
  • See also

    * red * scarlet * vermeil *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To color or paint vermilion.
  • 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 ----