Dottle vs Null - What's the difference?
dottle | null |
A plug or tap of a vessel.
A small rounded lump or mass.
The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
*1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine , Faber p. 96:
*:one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
*1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 38:
*:I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.
*1984 , , page 89:
*2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
*:I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet.
(Geordie) A baby's dummy, pacifier.
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 dottle and null
is that dottle is a plug or tap of a vessel while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dottle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.
References
* * *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.