Codling vs Null - What's the difference?
codling | null |
A small, young cod
* 1922 , Hugh Lofting,
A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .
A small, immature apple
* 1601–02 , ,
* 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson,
Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.
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 codling and null
is that codling is a small, young cod or codling can be a small, immature apple while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb codling
is .codling
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'', part 4, chapter 2, ''The Fidgit's Story:
- “Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …”
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Etymology 3
* Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list (etyl) querdlyng, being equivalent to modern (-ling). * Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.Alternative forms
* codlinNoun
(en noun)Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 5:
- Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
mothers milke were scarse out of him
The Complete Confectioner'', ''Creams, &c.:
- To make Codling' Cream.
Take twenty fair ' codlings , core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
References
* English terms with unknown etymologiesnull
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.