Blanch vs Null - What's the difference?
blanch | null |
To grow or become white
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
(cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
(figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
* Tillotson
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
* Francis Bacon
* Reliq. Wot
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
* Francis Bacon
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 blanch
is , a less common spelling of blanche.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.blanch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanchirVerb
(es)- his cheek blanched with fear
- the rose blanches in the sun
- to blanch linen
- age has blanched his hair
- to blanch almonds
- Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Etymology 2
Variant of blenchVerb
(es)- Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
- I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
- to blanch a deer
- Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .
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.