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Hammock vs Null - What's the difference?

hammock | null |

As nouns the difference between hammock and null

is that hammock is a swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

hammock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
  • * 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
  • ...the poore ?aylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes ) re?ting their tyred bodies...
  • (US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
  • Derived terms

    * hammock nettings (Nautical ) formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; later, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----