Dryer vs Null - What's the difference?
dryer | null |
A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
An electric hair dryer.
Any other device, household or industrial, designed to remove water, or humidity.
(US)
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 dryer and null
is that dryer is a household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective dryer
is (us).dryer
English
(wikipedia dryer)Alternative forms
* drierEtymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (household appliance for drying clothing) clothes dryer * (hair dryer)Hyponyms
* (other drying device) dehumidifierEtymology 2
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* English agent nounsnull
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.