Deck vs Null - What's the difference?
deck | null |
Any flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
(lb) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
A pack or set of playing cards.
A set of slides for a presentation.
*2011 , David Kroenke, Donald Nilson, Office 365 in Business
*:Navigate to the location where your PowerPoint deck is stored and select it.
(lb) A heap or store.
*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
*:Whohath such trinkets / Ready in the deck .
(uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
(slang) In a fight or brawl, to knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance
* 1919 ,
* Bible, Job xl. 10
* Shakespeare
To decorate (something).
* Dryden
To cover; to overspread.
* Milton
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 an adjective deck
is thick.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.deck
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* afterdeck * below decks * flight deck * foredeck * forward deck * lower deck * poopdeck * quarterdeck * rear deck * stern deckVerb
(en verb)- Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it. The false emphasis with which they try to deck their worthless thoughts blunts their susceptibilities.
- Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency.
- Deck my body in gay ornaments.
- The dew with spangles decked the ground.
- to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky
Usage notes
* See deck outnull
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.