Lard vs Null - What's the difference?
lard | null |
Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
(cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
to smear with fat or lard
* Somerville
to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
To fatten; to enrich.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To grow fat.
To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
* Dryden
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 a proper noun lard
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lard
English
(wikipedia lard)Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
- [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
- Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
- (Shakespeare)
- Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
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.