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Borer vs Null - What's the difference?

borer | null |

As nouns the difference between borer and null

is that borer is a person who is boring while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

borer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is boring
  • A person who bores, who drills.
  • A tool used for drilling.
  • An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
  • One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
  • The hagfish (Myxine ).
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * apple borer * borer bomb * cork-borer * corn borer * instep borer * jig borer * rock-borer * moth-borer * raise borer * squash vine borer * stone-borer * sugar cane borer * sugar-maple borer * twig borer * vine borer * well-borer * wood-borer, woodborer

    Verb

    (head)
    • ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • drill bit
  • drill

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , borer, boreri , borera, borera , boreru, borerima , borer, borere , boreru, boreri , boreru, borerima , borerom, borerima }}

    Synonyms

    * (drill bit) (l) * (drill)

    References

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    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)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----