Lug vs Null - What's the difference?
lug | null |
The act of hauling or dragging.
That which is hauled or dragged.
Anything that moves slowly.
A lug nut.
(electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
A fool, a large man.
(UK) An ear or ear lobe.
A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
(slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
(UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
(UK, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
* Spenser
(nautical) A lugsail.
(harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
A lugworm.
To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry.
* Collier
To run at too slow a speed.
(nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
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 an initialism lug
is (computing) (linux) user group.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lug
English
Noun
(en noun)- a hard lug
- The pack is a heavy lug .
- (Ascham)
- They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
- (Wright)
- Eight lugs of ground.
Derived terms
* (lug nut) lug nut * (large man) big lug * (protruding support) launch lugVerb
- Why do you always lug around so many books?
- They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
- When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
Derived terms
* luggageReferences
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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.