Loid vs Null - What's the difference?
loid | null |
To force (a lock) by slipping a credit card or similar thin object between the door and the frame.
* 1983 , Ronald L. Cruit, Intruder in your home (page 42)
* 2012 , Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention (page 346)
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 verb loid
is to force (a lock) by slipping a credit card or similar thin object between the door and the frame.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.loid
English
Verb
(en verb)- A deadbolt can't be loided because it doesn't have a curved, self-latching bolt.
- The loiding of windows is accomplished by inserting a thin stiff object between the meeting rails or stiles to move the latch to the open position, or by inserting a thin stiff wire through openings between the stile or rail and the frame
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.