Dally vs Null - What's the difference?
dally | null |
To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
* Calamy
* Barrow
To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)
* Shakespeare
To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
* 2003 , Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy , page 89:
Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in .
* 1947 - Bruce Kiskaddon, Rhymes and Ranches
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 dally and null
is that dally is several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb dally
is to waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.dally
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
- We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
- We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
- Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
- The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.
Synonyms
* dilly-dallyEtymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) "da le la vuelta ! " ("twist it around !") by law of Hobson-Jobson.Noun
(dallies)- What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally .
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.