Vernal vs Null - What's the difference?
vernal | null |
Pertaining to spring.
Young; fresh. (rfex)
Belonging to youth.
* Thomson
* Keble
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 a proper noun vernal
is a city in utah.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vernal
English
Alternative forms
* vernall “vernal, a.'' (and ''n.'')” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
Adjective
(en adjective)- when after the long vernal day of life
- And seems it hard thy vernal' years / Few ' vernal joys can show?
Usage notes
In everyday speech, used almost exclusively in phrase vernal equinox; in other contexts, spring is used attributively, as in spring colors'' or ''spring flowers, and even is frequently replaced with spring equinox.Antonyms
* autumnalCoordinate terms
* (pertaining to seasons) summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumalDerived terms
* prevernal * vernal-bearded * vernal conjunctivitis * vernal crocus * vernal cyclamen * vernal equinox, vernal equinoctial * vernal gentian * vernal grass * vernality * vernalization * vernalize * vernal keratoconjunctivitis * vernally * vernal orobus * vernal pool * vernal sandwort * vernal season * vernal sedge * vernal-seeming * vernal speedwell * vernal squill * vernal stargrass * vernal starwort * vernal-tincturedReferences
Anagrams
* ----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.