Chinking vs Null - What's the difference?
chinking | null |
The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking.
The sound of something that chinks.
* 1887 , May Hodgson, A day of life (page 187)
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 chinking and null
is that chinking is the material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb chinking
is .chinking
English
Noun
- All the sounds mingle with the chinkings of the gold and silver coin
Verb
(head)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.