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Lid vs Null - What's the difference?

lid | null |

As nouns the difference between lid and null

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

lid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top or cover of a container.
  • (lb) A cap or hat.
  • *
  • (lb) One ounce of cannabis.
  • A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
  • *2001 , realsurf.com message board
  • *:Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
  • *2003 August, Kneelo Knews
  • *:the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
  • (lb) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  • (lb) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  • (lb) Eyelid.
  • *
  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • Derived terms

    * skid lid * flip your lid * keep the lid on something/someone * lidless * eyelid

    Verb

  • To put a lid on something.
  • 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 ----