Barnacle vs Null - What's the difference?
barnacle | null |
A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
The barnacle goose.
(engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
(computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
(obsolete) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
(archaic, British) A nickname for spectacles.
(slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
To connect with or attach.
* 2009 , , Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos , Stone Bridge Press (2009), ISBN 9781933330853,
To press close against something.
* 2002 , , All Families Are Psychotic , Vintage Canada (2002), ISBN 0679311831,
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 nouns the difference between barnacle and null
is that barnacle is a marine crustacean of the subclass cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb barnacle
is to connect with or attach.barnacle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(barnacl)page 178:
- Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
page 16:
- He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.
See also
* limpetReferences
* * 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue , available from Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402]Anagrams
*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.