Loophole vs Null - What's the difference?
loophole | null |
A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
* 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist :
* 2002, Two Weeks Notice (movie):
A slit in a castle wall. Later: any similar window for shooting a weapon or letting in light.
* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :
* 1809 , Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee :
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , page 25:
(military) To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The lower windows were barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=A. E. W. Mason, title=The Broken Road, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed , and provisions were brought in from the outhouses. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=W. H. L. Watson, title=Adventures of a Despatch Rider, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The Germans were loopholing it for defence. }}
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
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 loophole and null
is that loophole is a method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb loophole
is (military) to prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers.loophole
English
Noun
(en noun)- I left him no loophole of escape, and laid bare the whole villainy which by these lights became plain as day.
- You have a contract that says you will work until Island Towers is finalized, which I interpret as completion of construction, or I can stop you working elsewhere. And there's no loopholes , because you drafted it and you're the best.
- ... and having a fair loophole , as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.
- There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.
- The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loophole s of a fortress.
Verb
(loophol)citation
citation
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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.