Hero vs. Zero

Heronoun

Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary deeds.

Heronoun

A role model.

Heronoun

(authorship) The main protagonist in a work of fiction.

Heronoun

(poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: any opponent player. Not to be confused with a weak call against a supposed bluff.

Heronoun

(US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.

Heronoun

The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed.

Heronoun

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

Heronoun

A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.

Heronoun

The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Æneas in the Æneid.

Heronoun

a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength;

Heronoun

the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

Heronoun

someone who fights for a cause

Heronoun

Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

Heronoun

(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

Heronoun

(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

Heronoun

a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Hero

A hero (heroine in its feminine form) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. Like other formerly solely gender-specific terms (like actor), hero is often used to refer to any gender, though heroine only refers to women.

Zeronumeral

The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

Zeronoun

The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

Zeronoun

The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

Zeronoun

Nothing, or none.

Zeronoun

The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.

Zeronoun

The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

Zeronoun

(mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.

Zeronoun

The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

Zeronoun

(slang) A person of little or no importance.

Zeronoun

(military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.

Zeronoun

A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.

Zeronoun

(finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

Zeroadjective

(informal) no, not any

Zeroadjective

(meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.

Zeroadjective

(meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.

Zeroadjective

(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the data.

Zeroverb

(transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.

Zeroverb

To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.

Zeroverb

(transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.

Zeroverb

(transitive) To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.

Zeroverb

(intransitive) To disappear

Zeronoun

A cipher; nothing; naught.

Zeronoun

The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.

Zeronoun

Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.

Zeronoun

a quantity of no importance;

Zeronoun

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

Zeronoun

the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale

Zeroverb

adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

Zeroverb

adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun);

Zeroadjective

indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration;

Zeroadjective

indicating an initial point or origin

Zeroadjective

of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

Zeroadjective

having no measurable or otherwise determinable value;