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Dander vs Null - What's the difference?

dander | null |

As nouns the difference between dander and null

is that dander is dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp or dander can be (slang) passion, temper, anger usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up" while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb dander

is to wander about.

dander

English

(wikipedia dander)

Etymology 1

Alteration of dandruff

Noun

(-)
  • Dandruff—scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp.
  • Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals.
  • Allergen particles that accumulate on and may be shed from the skin and fur of domestic animals, especially from household pets such as cats and dogs.
  • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Passion, temper, anger. Usually preceded by "have" or "get" and followed by "up".
  • He'll get his dander up if his team is criticized.
    She has her dander up every day about discrimination against women.

    See also

    * knee-jerk (Passion, temper, anger)

    Etymology 3

    Alteration of dandle or daddle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wander about.
  • * , Episode 16
  • So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey
  • To maunder, to talk incoherently.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----