Broom vs Null - What's the difference?
broom | null |
(label) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
(countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the genera , with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 4 scene 1:
(intransitive) To sweep.
* 1855 September 29, , "Model Officials", in Household Words: A Weekly Journal , Bradbury and Evens (1856),
* , Our Street'', in ''Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch'', Chapman & Hall (1857),
* Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart , Atlantic Monthly Press (1920),
* 1997 , Will Hobbs, Far North (HarperCollins, ISBN 0380725363), page 100:
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 a proper noun broom
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.broom
English
(wikipedia broom)Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) ‘edge’. Related to (l), (l).Noun
- and thy broom groves,
- Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
- Being lass-lorn
Derived terms
* a new broom sweeps clean * broom wagon * broomstick * brooming * pushbroom / push broom / push-broom * whiskbroomVerb
(en verb)page 206:
- “[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]”
''Our Streetpage 8:
- It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen.
pages 58–59:
- After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming'. I ' broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left.
- We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.
Quotations
*Etymology 2
References
*Anagrams
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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.