Clay vs Null - What's the difference?
clay | null |
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
An earth material with ductile qualities.
(lb) A tennis court surface.
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(lb) The material of the human body.
*1611 , Old Testament , King James Version, (w) 10:8-9:
*1611 , Old Testament , King James Version, (w) 64:8:
*:But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay , and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
(lb) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A clay pigeon.
To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
(of sugar) To purify using clay.
* 1776 , , Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
* 1809', Jonathan Williams, ''
* 1985 , Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 ,
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 a proper noun clay
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.clay
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay .
Antonyms
* (material of the human body) soul, spiritHyponyms
* kaolin, kaoline * ball clay * fire clay * potter's clayDerived terms
* ball clay * claying * clayen * clayey * claymation * clay pigeon * fire clay * modelling clay * potter's claySee also
* alluviumVerb
(en verb)- They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying' or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of ' claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
On the Process of '''ClayingSugar'', in ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , Volume 6.
page 200,
- The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.
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Anagrams
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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.