Noodle vs Null - What's the difference?
noodle | null |
(usually in plural) A string or strip of pasta.
(colloquial, dated) A person with poor judgement; a fool.
* Sydney Smith
* Charles Dickens, Hard Times
(colloquial) The brain, the head.
(colloquial) A pool noodle.
(fishing) To fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body
To think or ponder.
To fiddle, play with, or mess around.
To improvise music.
(Australia) To fossick, especially for opals.
* 1989 , Association for Industrial Archaeology, Industrial archaeology review , Volume 12,
* 1994 , RonMoon, Outback Australia: a Lonely Planet Australia guide ,
* 2006 , Marele Day, Susan Bradley Smith, Fay Knight (editors), Making Waves: 10 Years of the Byron Bay Writers Festival ,
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 noodle and null
is that noodle is (usually in plural) a string or strip of pasta while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb noodle
is (fishing) to fish (usually for very large catfish) without any equipment other than the fisherman's own body.noodle
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia noodle)- She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
- the chuckling grin of noodles
- If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a noodle .
Quotations
(English Citations of "noodle")Derived terms
* egg noodle * noodle bar * noodlehead * pool noodleSee also
* pasta *Verb
(Noodling)- Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling for flathead in the river.
- He noodled over the problem for a day or two before making a decision.
- "Noodle that thought around for a while" said Dr. Johnson to his Biblical Interpretations class
- If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
- He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.
- On the Olympic Field the tour-group is permitted to ‘noodle ’ (hunt for opals) on the waste or mullock heaps ...
- In Coober Pedy, noodling' for opals is generally discouraged, although a few tourist spots, such as the Old Timers Mine, have ' noodle pits open to the public.
- We learn how Lennon used to noodle (fossick) for opal as a kid, how camels were for a long time the only form of transportation, and where the name 'Coober Pedy' came from.
Derived terms
* noodlerReferences
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.