Womb vs Null - What's the difference?
womb | null |
(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
(obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
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*:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
(obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
*1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
*:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
(figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
*Dryden
*:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
*Robert Browning
*:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .
(obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
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 womb and null
is that womb is (anatomy) in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb womb
is (obsolete) to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.womb
English
(uterus)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
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.