Cowl vs Null - What's the difference?
cowl | null |
A monk's hood or hooded robe
* Alexander Pope
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge
(obsolete, British) A soe
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 cowl and null
is that cowl is a monk's hood or hooded robe while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cowl
English
(wikipedia cowl)Noun
(en noun)- What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl ?
See also
* (l) (cowl-shaped)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.