Grease vs Null - What's the difference?
grease | null |
Animal fat in a melted or soft state
(extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
(informal) To bribe.
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, 2008, title=With Lyon in Missouri, author=Byron Archibald Dunn
, passage=Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=GOG - an End Time Mystery, author=Dan Richardson
, passage=His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.}}
(transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
(slang) To kill, murder.
(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
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 grease and null
is that grease is animal fat in a melted or soft state while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb grease
is to put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.grease
English
(wikipedia grease)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (animal fat) fat, lardDerived terms
* dirty grease * elbow grease * grease-box * grease bush * grease gun / grease-gun * grease-monkey * grease moth * grease nipple * greasepaint / grease-paint * grease payment * greaseproof * greasewood * greasiness * greasy * the squeaky wheel gets the grease * greaseballVerb
(greas)- the greased advocate that grinds the poor
- ''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
- Fat cats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Synonyms
* (put grease or fat on) lard * (slang for kill or murder) bump off, hit, whackDerived terms
* greaser * grease the hand * grease the wheels * grease someone's palmAnagrams
* * *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.