Charked vs Null - What's the difference?
charked | null |
(chark)
Charcoal; coke.
* 1719 , ,
A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire-drill.
* 1872 , Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore ,
(US, Alaska) A wine glass.
* 2006 , Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill, Aunt Phil's Trunk: Early Alaska ,
A variety of hunting bird.
* 1856 , Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon , 2nd Edition,
To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
* 1749 , John Lowthorp, Royal Society of Great Britain, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year MDCC , 5th Edition,
* 1771 , John Whitaker, The History of Manchester , Volume 1,
(Scotland) To make a grating sound.
* 1820 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 7,
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 verb charked
is (chark).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.charked
English
Verb
(head)chark
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...
- The discoverer of the chark , or " fire-drill," an instrument for obtaining fire by artificial means, would be so great a benefactor to a people that had to suffer all the inconveniences resulting from occasional fireless hearths, that we may well understand why he may be invested by his astonished and delighted fellow-savages with miraculous or supernatural powers.
- At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.
- A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.
Verb
(en verb)- I have ?een Turf chark''d, and then it ?erves to work Iron, and, as I have been inform'd will ?erve to make it in a Bloomery or Iron-work. Turf ' chark' d I reckon the ?weete?t and whole?ome?t Fire that can be, fitter for a Chamber and con?umptive People, than either Wood, Stone-Coal or Charcoal.
- The method which the Romans now taught them of charking the coal continues e??entially the ?ame until the pre?ent moment.
- The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.
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.