Furtle vs Null - What's the difference?
furtle | null |
A cursory examination of the contents or details of something.
* 2005 , Chloe Richards, Oops! , ISBN 9781857768343,
* 2008 , , Matter , ISBN 9780316040723,
* 2010 , Stanley Challenger Graham, Stanley's View, Volume 6 , ISBN 9781446188217,
To gently delve; to probe or rummage tentatively.
* 2005 , , You Drive Me Crazy , ISBN 9781405523738,
* 2008 , Peter Helton, Rainstone Fall , ISBN 9781569475256,
* 2011 , Mark R. Faulkner, Flux , ISBN 9781471049538,
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 furtle and null
is that furtle is a cursory examination of the contents or details of something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb furtle
is to gently delve; to probe or rummage tentatively.furtle
English
Noun
(en noun)p. 226 (Google preview):
- Then he looked back at his glossy, had a furtle with something in his pocket, and then looked back at me.
ch. 8 (Google preview):
- “Let me just have a quick furtle .” He dug his hand elbow-deep into the bag.
(Google preview):
- It was so unusual that I went for another furtle in the 1881 census to find her family.
Verb
(furtl)(Google preview):
- A burly mechanic wheeled in a bright yellow battery charger on a trolley, furtled under the bonnet and gave the car the full benefit of its volts.
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- Needham was already half-heartedly furtling about in the kitchen, opening cupboards without bothering to search them, letting his left hand trail over objects as though he was thinking with his fleshy fingers
p. 4 (Google preview):
- Furtling amongst the loose change and accumulated junk, he finally found what he was looking for.
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.