Loaf vs Null - What's the difference?
loaf | null |
(also loaf of bread ) A block of bread after baking.
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, title= Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf ).
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A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
To do nothing, to be idle.
(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
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 loaf and null
is that loaf is (also loaf of bread ) a block of bread after baking while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb loaf
is to do nothing, to be idle.loaf
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lof, laf, from (etyl) .Noun
(loaves)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* bonce, noddle, nutDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * half a loaf is better than none * (l)References
* (soap) Miller, J.L. "Customers believe in downstate Soap Fairy", , B10, January 10, 2006.Etymology 2
Probably aVerb
(en verb)- loaf''' about'', '''''loaf around .
Synonyms
* idle, laze, loungeAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular pluralsnull
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.