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Drainer vs Null - What's the difference?

drainer | null |

As nouns the difference between drainer and null

is that drainer is that which drains while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

drainer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which drains.
  • * 2003 , Gail Waesche Kislevitz, The Spirit of the Marathon (page 78)
  • I know that poor form is one of the biggest drainers of energy, so even though I slowed down significantly I made a very conscious effort to maintain good form.
  • A frame or rack for allowing washed crockery etc to dry naturally.
  • A person who explores drains, tunnels, and/or sewers.
  • Synonyms

    (frame or rack for drying) * draining board

    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 ----