Housekeeping vs Null - What's the difference?
housekeeping | null |
The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
* 1842 , Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller (page 474)
Any general tasks that involve preparation.
Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
* Sir Walter Scott
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 housekeeping and null
is that housekeeping is the chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.housekeeping
English
Noun
- Those who with us would have their own little housekeepings and cooking, have not the means, nor perhaps the taste, for such domestic comfort, and take their victuals at the trattoria, or cook-shop.
- The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
- "Care not thou about that," said Joliffe; "but tell me, softly and hastily, what is in the pantry?"
"Small housekeeping enough," said Phoebe; "a cold capon and some comfits, and the great standing venison pasty, with plenty of spice — a manchet or two besides, and that is all."
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.