Chef vs Null - What's the difference?
chef | null |
The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household
*<1845 , R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning'' in ''Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245
*:The Chef' s peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment
*1849 , Thackeray, Pendennis (1850), I. xxviii. 266
*:The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
Any cook
*Kiss the chef
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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 chef and null
is that chef is boss while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.chef
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
When used in reference to a cook with no sous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the term is connotes a certain degree of prestige—whether culinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing, chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.Synonyms
* (head cook) cookReferences
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.