Boil vs Null - What's the difference?
boil | null |
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
(intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
* Francis Bacon
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
* Bible, Job xii. 31
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
* Surrey
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 boil and null
is that boil is a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection or boil can be the point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb boil
is to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.boil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bile, .Synonyms
* abscess * carbuncle * cyst * furuncle * pimple * pustuleExternal links
* (Boil)Etymology 2
(etyl) "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.Noun
(en noun)- Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil .
Verb
(en verb)- Boil some water in a pan.
- Boil the eggs for two minutes.
- Is the rice boiling yet?
- Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
- It’s boiling outside!
- I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
- to boil sugar or salt
- To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
- the boiling waves of the sea
- He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
- His blood boils with anger.
- Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
Synonyms
* (of a liquid) seethe, well, plaw ; see also * (of the weather) be baking]], be scorching, [[swelter, be sweltering * (of a person) be seething]], be baking, [[stew, be stewingAntonyms
* (of a liquid) condense * (of the weather) be freezing * (of a person) be freezingDerived terms
* boil away * boil down * boil down to * boil off * boil over * go off the boil * hard-boiled * make someone's blood boil * parboil * pot boiler * slow boil * soft-boiledSee also
* bake * condense * freeze * fry * grill * poach * steamExternal links
* (Boiling)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.