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Leek vs Null - What's the difference?

leek | null |

As nouns the difference between leek and null

is that leek is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

leek

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum , of the lily family, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
  • Any of several species of Allium , broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.
  • Synonyms

    * scallion (''US, Scotland ), garden leek, broadleaf wild leek

    Derived terms

    * (broadleaf wild leek) - Allium ampeloprasum , * (narrowleaf wild leek) - * (garden leek) - Allium ampeloprasum * (sand leek) - * (threecorner leek) - * houseleek - Sempervivum

    See also

    * garlic

    Anagrams

    * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----