Hose vs Null - What's the difference?
hose | null |
(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
* Bible, Daniel iii. 21
* Shakespeare
To water or spray with a hose.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Vivian Russell
, title=Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny
To provide with hose (garment)
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1834
, author=Pierce Pungent
, title=Men and Manners
, date=July to December
, volume=X
, page=416
, magazine=Fraser's magazine for town and country
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}} To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=John R. Bruning
, title=Jungle ace
, publisher=Brassey's
To trick or deceive.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Keath Fraser
, title=Popular anatomy
, publisher=The Porcupine's Quill
(computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2006
, date=Spring 2006
, author=Joel Durham Jr.
, title=Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI
, page=63
, magazine=Maximum PC
, publisher=Future US, Inc.
, issn=1522-4279
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 hose and null
is that hose is trousers while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hose
English
(wikipedia hose)Noun
- These men were bound in their coats, their hosen , and their hats, and their other garments.
- His youthful hose , well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank.
Usage notes
* (garment covering legs ) Formerly a male garment covering the lower body, with the upper body covered by a doublet. By the 16th century hose had separated into two garments, stocken and breeches. Since the 1920's, hose refers mostly to women's stockings or pantyhoseDerived terms
* hose clamp * hose clipVerb
(hos)citation, isbn=9780711209886 , page=83 , passage=Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.}}
citation, passage=The mighty mass of many a mingled race,
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}}
citation, isbn=9781574886948 , page=136 , passage=His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.}}
citation, isbn=9780889841499 , page=458 , passage=Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him.}}
citation, passage=There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.}}
Derived terms
* hose down * home and hosedAnagrams
* hoes * shoe English transitive verbsnull
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.