Dredge vs Null - What's the difference?
dredge | null |
Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
# A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
# A dredging machine.
# An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
to make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge
to bring something to the surface with a dredge
(Usually with up) to unearth, such as an unsavoury past
to coat moistened food with a powder, such as flour or sugar
A mixture of oats and barley.
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 dredge and null
is that dredge is any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: or dredge can be a mixture of oats and barley while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb dredge
is to make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge or dredge can be to coat moistened food with a powder, such as flour or sugar.dredge
English
Etymology 1
(Dredging) From (etyl) dreg-boat'' (from (etyl) *''drecg(e) ) or alternatively from (etyl) dregghe, probably ultimately from the same root as drag.Noun
(en noun)- (Raymond)
Verb
(dredg)Etymology 2
From (etyl) dragie, via (etyl) from (etyl) .Verb
(dredg)Etymology 3
(etyl) dragge, (etyl) .Noun
- (Kersey)
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.