Nail vs Null - What's the difference?
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The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
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A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside .
An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20th of an ell or 1/16th of a yard (2.25 inches or 5.715 cm).
To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
To drive a nail.
To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
* Dryden
(slang) To catch.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
(slang) To expose as a sham.
(slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
(slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
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(slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
To spike, as a cannon.
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 nail and null
is that nail is the thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb nail
is to fix (an object) to another object using a nail.nail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nail, nayl, (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
Derived terms
* eightpenny nail * fourpenny nail * hangnail * hard as nails * hit the nail on the head * (l) * nail file / nail-file / nailfile * nail polish * (l) * (l) * on the nail * fingernail * rusty nail * sixpenny nail * spit nails * straw nail * tenpenny nail * toenail * twelvepenny nailSee also
* claw * talonEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- He nailed the placard to the post.
- He used the ax head for nailing .
- The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.
- we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
- I really nailed that test.
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- There’s a benefit gala at the Boston Pops tonight, and... well, I’m trying to nail the flautist.'' - Brian Griffin in the TV series ''Family Guy
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Synonyms
* (to engage in sexual intercourse) bang, fuck, pound, screw, shag (British)See also
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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.