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Caulking vs Null - What's the difference?

caulking | null |

As nouns the difference between caulking and null

is that caulking is a sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb caulking

is .

caulking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.
  • Oakum was used for the caulking of the hulls of wooden ships.
  • * 2001 , Middle Age: A Romance , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17)
  • Marina's bedroom was a small charming room with small charming windows of aged glass, dating to the mid-1800s, windowpanes badly in need of caulking , overlooking St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.

    Synonyms

    * caulk

    Derived terms

    * caulking iron

    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 ----