Dressing vs Null - What's the difference?
dressing | null |
(medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
The activity of getting dressed.
* 2004 , Kathryn Banks, ?Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations (page 182)
(obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
(dated) Castigation; scolding; dressing down.
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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 dressing and null
is that dressing is (medicine) material applied to a wound for protection or therapy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb dressing
is .dressing
English
(wikipedia dressing)Noun
citation, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.}}
- Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* dressing gown * dressing stickVerb
(head)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.