Billet vs Null - What's the difference?
billet | null |
A short informal letter.
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A written order to quarter soldiers.
A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
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An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
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To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
(label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
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 billet and null
is that billet is ticket while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.billet
English
(wikipedia billet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets .}}
- 17 June 1940': Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ ' billet . Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
Verb
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
Etymology 3
(etyl) billette, from ).Noun
(en noun)- They shall beat out my brains with billets .
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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.