Cardboard vs Null - What's the difference?
cardboard | null |
A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
Made of or resembling cardboard.
* 1868 , Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk ,
* 1973 , Journal of Black Poetry , Issue 17,
* 2008 , Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia's Border ,
* Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama ,
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 cardboard and null
is that cardboard is a wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective cardboard
is made of or resembling cardboard.cardboard
English
(wikipedia cardboard)Noun
Derived terms
* cardboard box * cardboard city * cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutoutSee also
* paperboardAdjective
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- The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
page 27:
- The thing really looked quite cardboard .
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- While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard , Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.
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- MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.
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.