Felt vs Null - What's the difference?
felt | null |
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
* Shakespeare, King Lear , act 4, scene 6:
A hat made of felt.
(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
* 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
(feel)
That has been experienced or perceived.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
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 a verb felt
is to fear something.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.felt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.Noun
(wikipedia felt) (-)- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
- To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Matthew Hale)
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
Statistics
*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.