Haul vs Null - What's the difference?
haul | null |
To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
To pull or draw something heavy.
* Denham
* Alexander Pope
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
* Ulysses S. Grant
(nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
* Cook
(nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).
(figuratively) To pull.
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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.
Collectively, all of the products bought on a shopping trip.
A haul video
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 haul and null
is that haul is a long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb haul
is to carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.haul
English
Verb
(en verb)- Some dance, some haul the rope.
- Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
- to haul logs to a sawmill
- When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
- I hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
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Derived terms
* haulable * haul downAntonyms
* (to steer closer to the wind) veer * (to shift aft) veerDerived terms
* haulage * hauler * haulier * long-haul * longhaulingNoun
(en noun)- The robber's haul was over thirty items.
- The trawler landed a ten-ton haul .
Anagrams
* ----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.