Bobfly vs Null - What's the difference?
bobfly | null |
(fishing) The fly at the end of the leader.
* 1866 , Sir Randal Howland Roberts, The river's side: or, The trout and grayling, and how to take them (page 74)
* 1904 , Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Fishing holidays
* 1908 , The Badminton magazine of sports & pastimes: Volume 26
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 bobfly and null
is that bobfly is (fishing) the fly at the end of the leader while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bobfly
English
Noun
(bobflies)- This fly is always best as the bobfly on the cast.
- a fish came in on the bobfly
- He watched the upper fold of the curved line rolling itself out almost parallel to the lower, and the flies finally alighting upon the surface of the water one after the other in beautiful sequence from the bobfly to the tail.
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.
