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Barless vs Null - What's the difference?

barless | null |

As an adjective barless

is lacking bars.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

barless

English

Adjective

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  • Lacking bars
  • * {{quote-book, year=1883, author=Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, title=To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, title=The Story of the "9th King's" in France, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal. }}
  • Lacking a bar
  • * {{quote-news, year=2000, date=July 14, author=Done Rose, title=The Grub Game, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=The regulars were left barless but, like the White Russians of Paris and the Cubans of Miami, they religiously awaited the day they could return. }}

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    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 ----