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Caramel vs Null - What's the difference?

caramel | null |

As nouns the difference between caramel and null

is that caramel is a smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

caramel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
  • A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
  • A yellow-brown color.
  • Usage notes

    Both the two syllable and the three syllable pronunciations are very common in all regions of the United States, but the trisyllabic pronunciation is more common than the disyllabic one in the South (excluding western Texas), northern New Jersey, eastern New York and New England, while the disyllabic one is more common than the trisyllabic one in other regions. Dialect Survey map 1], showing that both pronunciations are common in all regions, and [http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ map 2, showing which regions the di- and tri-syllabic pronunciations predominate in

    Derived terms

    * caramelise, caramelize

    See also

    * fudge, toffee

    Anagrams

    * * *

    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)

    See also

    * nil ----