Boll vs Null - What's the difference?
boll | null |
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
* 1853 ,
An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 31
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 boll and null
is that boll is bowl, dish while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.boll
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
Derived terms
* boll weevil * throat-bollVerb
(en verb)- The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .
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.