Ala vs Null - What's the difference?
ala | null |
(zoology) A wing or winglike structure.
(anatomy) A winglike anatomical process or part, especially of bone.
(botany) The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
(architecture) In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.
(colloquial)
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* 2008 , (Film Threat) ,
* 2011 , (The Washington Post)''’s blog ''The Fix ,
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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 a proper noun ala
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ala
English
Etymology 1
Originated 1730–40 from (etyl) .Noun
References
* (wikipedia "ala") * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) , by way of its English derivation a la.Preposition
(ala)Film review:
- The film is told in reverse ala Memento.
Film review:
- [...] interactive plasma screens with flashing digits and what not, ala “Minority Report,” [...]
Politics article:
- [...] we might be getting to the point where Palin is a bona fide liability - ala Pelosi - for the GOP.
Business article:
- [...] the NYSE didn't implode ala Merrill [...]
References
*“ala” examplesat Wordnik
Anagrams
* English palindromes ----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.