Counter vs Null - What's the difference?
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An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
* He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
* He put his money on the counter , and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
* He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter - he can count to 100.
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.
(wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
* Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
(computing, programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
(computing, Internet) A hit counter.
Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
* Running counter to all the rules of virtue. -Locks .
(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
(by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
* 1959 , , Seymour: An Introduction :
To contradict, oppose.
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
* His left hand countered provokingly. - C. Kingsley
To take action in response to; to respond.
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Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
* I. Taylor
In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
* John Locke
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
* Shakespeare
At or against the front or face.
* Sandys
(obsolete) An encounter.
* Spenser
(nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(music) Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
The back leather or heel part of a boot.
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 counter and null
is that counter is an object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc or counter can be (nautical) the overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline or counter can be (obsolete) an encounter while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adverb counter
is contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction or counter can be in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.As a verb counter
is to contradict, oppose.As an adjective counter
is contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.counter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (French (m)), from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bean counter * counter batten * countertop * hit counter * over the counter * program counter * rivet counterEtymology 2
From (etyl) contre, (etyl) cuntre, both from (etyl) contra.Adverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face [...].
Etymology 3
From counter- .Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}
Adjective
(-)- His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
- Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.
Derived terms
* counter agent * counter fugue * counter current * counter revolution * counter poison : See also:Adverb
(-)- running counter to all the rules of virtue
- a hound that runs counter
- This is counter , you false Danish dogs!
- which [darts] they never throw counter , but at the back of the flier
Noun
(en noun)- with kindly counter under mimic shade
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.