Maguey vs Null - What's the difference?
maguey | null |
Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana .
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 424:
* 1985 , Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian , Vintage 1992, p. 147:
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 maguey and null
is that maguey is any of various large agaves of mexico and the southern us, especially the american aloe, agave americana while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.maguey
English
Noun
(en noun)- through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way
- and they rode through strange forests of maguey --the aloe or century plant--with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.
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.
