Bath vs Null - What's the difference?
bath | null |
A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
A building or area where bathing occurs.
* Gwilt
The act of bathing.
A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
* {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
, author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper
, passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
To wash a person or animal in a bath
* {{quote-book, year=1990
, author=Mukti Jain Campion
, title=The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability.
* {{quote-book, year=2006
, author=Sue Dallas, Diana North and Joanne Angus
, title=Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat
* {{quote-book, year=2007
, author=Robin Barker
, title=Baby Love
(biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
* 1611, ,
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 verb bath
is (label) drown.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bath
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
- a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
Usage notes
Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See alsoDerived terms
* * * * * (US)Verb
(en verb)citation, isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}
citation, isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}
citation, isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----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.