Freshet vs Null - What's the difference?
freshet | null |
A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
* 1831', Log after log is hauled to the bank of the river, and in a short time their first raft is made on the shore and loaded with cordwood. When the next '''freshet sets it afloat, it is secured by long grapevines or cables until, the proper time being arrived, the husband and sons embark on it and float down the mighty stream. —
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (poetic) A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.
* 1936', Between the kerbs and the snow-banks a '''freshet''' of clear blue water rises. Within me a '''freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins. — Henry Miller, ''Black Spring
* 1959', We may find a dozen big catfish lying in the belly of the net, or a couple of walleyed pike, or some other kind of fresh-water fish. A '''freshet brought them down, and they were making their way back up the river, and they hit the net." — Joseph Mitchell, ''The Rivermen
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 freshet and null
is that freshet is a flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.freshet
English
(wikipedia freshet)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.
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.