Cockling vs Null - What's the difference?
cockling | null |
A young, small, or immature cock.
*1725 , Sir Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney :
*1858 , The Knickerbocker: or, New-York monthly magazine - Volume 54 - Page 521:
*1920 , The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography - Volume 44 - Page 74:
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 cockling and null
is that cockling is a young, small, or immature cock while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb cockling
is .cockling
English
Etymology 1
From .Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- These cocklings cocker'd we bewail too late, When that we see our off-spring gaily bent, Women manwood, and men effeminate.
- Take warning in time, cocklings ; look sharp — but not in this direction, if you please.'
- 'That ere our pretty Cocklings learn to crow, To pamper Lust they must to Market go?
Anagrams
*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.