Cockle vs Null - What's the difference?
cockle | null |
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
The shell of such a mollusk.
(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
(mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
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 cockle and null
is that cockle is any of various edible european bivalve mollusks, of the family cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells or cockle can be any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, , and lolium temulentum while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb cockle
is to cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.cockle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(wikipedia cockle) (en noun)- (Raymond)
- (Knight)
- (Knight)
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* blood cockle * cockleshell * common cockle * warm the cockles of one's heartSee also
* scallopVerb
(cockl)Etymology 2
(Lolium temulentum) (Agrostemma githago) (Lolium temulentum) (Agrostemma githago) From (etyl) coccel, perhaps from a diminutive of (etyl)Synonyms
* (Lolium temulentum) darnel, false wheatSee also
* cheat * rye grass * tare * vetchAnagrams
*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.