Drier vs Null - What's the difference?
drier | null |
One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.
(chiefly, British, Canadian) Any substance that accelerates drying.
(chiefly, British, Canadian) Catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.
(dry)
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 drier and null
is that drier is one who, or that which, dries; a desiccative while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective drier
is (dry).drier
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Alternative forms
* dryerEtymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
Etymology 2
Adjective
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*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.