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moil | null |

As nouns the difference between moil and null

is that moil is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

moil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To toil, to work hard.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Moil not too much under ground.
  • * Dryden
  • Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=There are strange things done in the midnight sun
          By the men who moil for gold;
    The Arctic trails have their secret tales
          That would make your blood run cold;
    The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
          But the queerest they ever did see
    Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
          I cremated Sam McGee.
  • , author=Robert W. Service , title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses) , chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee) , year=1907}}
  • To churn continually.
  • Noun

  • Hard work.
  • Confusion, turmoil.
  • A spot; a defilement.
  • * (rfdate) (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • The moil of death upon them.
    Synonyms
    * (hard work) labour, labor; toil; work

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) 'mohel', ???? (ritual circumciser), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

    Alternative forms

    * moile, moyle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
  • (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
  • (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
  • Synonyms

    * (excess glass) overblow (blow molding), scrap

    See also

    * gather * mold seam * pontil mark

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----