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Afghan vs Null - What's the difference?

afghan | null |

As nouns the difference between afghan and null

is that afghan is a blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

afghan

English

(wikipedia Afghan) (Origins of the name Afghan)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent.
  • A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent.
  • A breed of dogs, the Afghan hound.
  • Derived terms

    * Afghanization, Afghanisation

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
  • (UK, military slang)
  • He will be in Afghan for another six months.

    Synonyms

    * Pashtun * Pashto

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
  • Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.
  • See also

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----