Culm vs Null - What's the difference?
culm | null |
waste coal, used as a poor quality fuel; slack.
* 1887 , Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker , Chapter XXI:
anthracite, especially when found in small masses
(botany) the stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge
* 1962 , , page 150:
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 a proper noun culm
is a german bishopric, founded in 1234.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.culm
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps related to (coal). Perhaps from (etyl) , applied to this species of coal, which is much found in balls or knots in some parts of Wales: compare Old English culme.Noun
- Here he lay down on a place soft with culm , to take his contemplated rest, and, before he was aware of it, sleep had descended on him, overpowered him, and bound him fast.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from (etyl) culmus .Noun
(en noun)- ...because, upon hearing him out, she sank down on the lawn in an impossible posture, examining a grass culm and frowning, he had taken his words back at once;...
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.