Jetty vs Null - What's the difference?
jetty | null |
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(obsolete) To jut out; to project.
(archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.75:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
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 jetty and null
is that jetty is a structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb jetty
is (obsolete|intransitive) to jut out; to project.As an adjective jetty
is (archaic) made of jet, or like jet in color.jetty
English
(wikipedia jetty)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.Noun
(jetties)Synonyms
* (protective structure) mole, breakwater * pierCoordinate terms
* (pier) quay, leveeHypernyms
* (pier) wharf, dockVerb
(en-verb)- (Florio)
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)- those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
- She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].
Derived terms
* jettinessReferences
*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.