Doorstep vs Null - What's the difference?
doorstep | null |
Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=10 (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
A big slice of bread.
:2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy", P 241 ISBN 0-06-052318-2
:"I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it."
(journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
* 1998 , Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter? :
* 2006 , Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song :
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 doorstep and null
is that doorstep is step of a door the threshold of a doorway while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb doorstep
is (journalism) to corner somebody for an unexpected interview.doorstep
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
Verb
- Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
- Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.
See also
* ambush journalismAnagrams
* * * *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.