different between noon vs null
noon
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nu?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English n?n (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin n?na (“ninth hour”) (short for n?na h?ra), feminine of n?nus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
Noun
noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons)
- The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
- (obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
- 1885, When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:
- (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- (figuratively) The highest point; culmination.
- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Synonyms
- (ninth hour of daylight): nones
- (midpoint of the day): midday, nones, noontide, twelve; see also Thesaurus:midday
- (midnight): noon of night; see also Thesaurus:midnight
- (highest point): capstone; see also Thesaurus:apex
Antonyms
- (middle of the night): midnight
Translations
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Verb
noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)
- To relax or sleep around midday
- 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle
- We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
- 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX
- Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
- 1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail
- Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around
- 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:sleep
Etymology 2
Noun
noon (plural noons)
- The letter ? in the Arabic script.
Anagrams
- no no, no-no, nono
Arapaho
Noun
noon
- egg
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English n?n, from ne + ?n.
Determiner
noon
- no (not any)
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
Descendants
- English: none
- Scots: nane
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: no?on
- IPA(key): /no?on/
Adverb
noon
- when
- indicates past time
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null
English
Alternative forms
- Ø (linguistics, abbreviation)
- ? (mathematics, abbreviation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin n?llus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /n?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
null (plural nulls)
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Zero quantity of 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.
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) Null hypothesis.
Translations
Adjective
null (comparative more null, superlative most null)
- 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.
- 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.
Antonyms
- antinull
- non-null
Derived terms
- null determiner
- nullary
- nullity
Verb
null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)
- (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
- To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Related terms
- annul
- nulled work
See also
- nil
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Latin n?llus (“none”).
Numeral
null
- (Luserna) zero
References
- “null” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Estonian
Numeral
null
- zero
Faroese
Etymology
From Latin nullus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Numeral
null
- zero
Noun
null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)
- (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero
Declension
German
Etymology
From the noun Null (“the number zero”), from Italian nulla, from Latin nulla, feminine singular of nullus (“no, none”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?l/
Numeral
null
- zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between -1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)
- (colloquial) zero; no
- Synonym: (überhaupt) kein
Coordinate terms
Adjective
null (not comparable)
- (specialist, law, chiefly predicative) null (having no validity)
Declension
Derived terms
- null und nichtig (also in common use)
Further reading
- “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online; cp. “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online
- “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nul/
Numeral
null
- zero
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin nullus (“no one, none, no”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).
Determiner
null
- no (determiner: not any)
- ha null penger - to have no money
Numeral
null
- zero, nought, nil
Noun
null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)
- zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
- a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)
Derived terms
- nullstille
- nulltoleranse
- nullvekst
References
- “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin nullus
Determiner
null
- no (determiner: not any)
- ha null pengar - to have no money
Numeral
null
- zero, nought, nil
Noun
null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)
- zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
- a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)
Derived terms
- nulltoleranse
- nullvekst
References
- “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German null.
Numeral
null
- zero
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