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As nouns the difference between cookery and null

is that cookery is the art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

cookery

English

Noun

  • The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
  • Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
  • * 1475 , Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened , subtitle:
  • together with excellent directions for cookery , as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
  • (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
  • * 1839 , John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues , page 335:
  • I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
  • (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
  • * 1800 , Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke , page 3:
  • She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
  • * 1934 , Gray Owl, Pilgrims of the Wild , page 101:
  • ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...
  • (figurative) Making something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.
  • * 1871 [380 BCE], Plato, Gorgias , tr. Benjamin Jowett:
  • Cookery , then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of medicine...
  • * 1997 , Leon Mayhew, The New Public , page 22–3:
  • Yet ever since Plato claimed that rhetoric is only a knack of making the worse appear the better cause – a form of "cookery " – rhetorical theories of social order have been under attack...

    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 ----