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Corral vs Null - What's the difference?

corral | null |

As nouns the difference between corral and null

is that corral is an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb corral

is to capture or round up.

corral

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
  • We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
  • An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
  • Please return the shopping carts to the corral .
  • A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
  • The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Commanche attacks.

    Synonyms

    * (livestock enclosure ): pen, stockade

    See also

    * crawl (Jamaican English ) * kraal (South African English )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To capture or round up.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • To place inside of a corral.
  • To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----