Earthy vs Null - What's the difference?
earthy | null |
Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
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 an adjective earthy
is resembling dirt or soil (ie earth).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.earthy
English
Adjective
(er)- The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
- She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
- He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
Anagrams
*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.
