Clatter vs Null - What's the difference?
clatter | null |
A rattling noise.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title= A loud disturbance.
Noisy talk or chatter.
To cause to make a rattling sound.
* (Jonathan Swift)
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=21 November
, author=Michael Cragg
, title=New music: Foxes - Home
, work=the Guardian
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
To make a rattling noise.
To chatter noisily or rapidly.
* Spenser
(Northern English) To hit; to smack.
* 1988 , , Friday Night Live
* 2010 , Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
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 clatter and null
is that clatter is a rattling noise while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb clatter
is to cause to make a rattling sound.clatter
English
Noun
(en noun)The Dust of Conflict, chapter=7
citation, passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
Synonyms
* commotion * racketVerb
(en verb)- You clatter still your brazen kettle.
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- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
- I see thou dost but clatter .
- "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
- “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.
Derived terms
* clatterer * clatteringly * clatterynull
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.