Widow vs Null - What's the difference?
widow | null |
A woman whose husband has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.
(informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
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An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
(printing) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus .
To make a widow (or widower) of someone; to cause the death of one's spouse.
English transitive verbs
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 widow and null
is that widow is a woman whose husband has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb widow
is to make a widow (or widower) of someone; to cause the death of one's spouse.widow
English
Noun
(en noun)For a Bowling '''Widow, a Split Isn't Just Two Lonely Pins," ''New York Times , 27 Nov.,
- I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow , but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league.
Derived terms
* black widow * golf widow * grass widow * widow bird * widow-makerVerb
(en verb)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.