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Cleat vs Null - What's the difference?

cleat | null |

As nouns the difference between cleat and null

is that cleat is a strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb cleat

is to strengthen with a cleat.

cleat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
  • * 1851 ,
  • [...] the people of that island erected lofty spars along the seacoast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats , something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
  • A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
  • (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
  • A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe meant for better traction. (See cleats.)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strengthen with a cleat.
  • (nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat
  • Anagrams

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    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 ----