Custard vs Null - What's the difference?
custard | null |
(uncountable) A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches.
(countable) Any particular variety of custard.
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 custard and null
is that custard is (uncountable) a type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.custard
English
(wikipedia custard)Noun
Derived terms
* confectioner's custard * custard apple * custard arm * custard brains * custard Christian * custard-chucker * custard coffin * custard cream * custard cup * custard-cups * custard glass * custard pie * custard powder * custard tart * custard winds * custardy * egg custard * frozen custard * fruit custard * love custard * turn to custardSee also
* bavarois * * * cream puff * floating islands * trifle * panna cotta, pannacotta * vanilla slice * vla * zabaglionenull
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.