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Bobfly vs Null - What's the difference?

bobfly | null |

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)
  • (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)
  • This fly is always best as the bobfly on the cast.
  • * 1904 , Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Fishing holidays
  • a fish came in on the bobfly
  • * 1908 , The Badminton magazine of sports & pastimes: Volume 26
  • 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.
    (Webster 1913)

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----