Coffee vs Null - What's the difference?
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A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
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*:"He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
*2008 , Agnes Poirier, The Guardian , 12 April:
*:As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, misnamed ‘beans’ due to their shape.
A tropical plant of the genus Coffea .
(rft-sense) A pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
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The end of the meal—when coffee is usually served.
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Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
To drink coffee.
* 1839 , Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker
* 2010 , Patrick Day, Too Late in the Afternoon: One Man's Triumph Over Depression
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 coffee and null
is that coffee is a beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective coffee
is of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.As a verb coffee
is to drink coffee.coffee
English
(wikipedia coffee)Noun
- The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter.
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Synonyms
* *Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* black coffee * coffee-and * coffee bag * coffee bar * coffee bean * coffee break * coffee cake, coffeecake * coffee cup * coffee essense * coffee grinder * coffeehouse * coffee klatch, coffee klatsch * coffee machine * coffee maker, coffeemaker * coffee mill * coffee morning * coffee pot, coffeepot * coffee room * coffee royal * coffee rust * coffee shop * coffee spoon * coffee table * coffee-table book * coffee tree/coffeetree * drip coffee * filter coffee * Gaelic coffee * iced coffee * instant coffee * Irish coffee * Kentucky coffee tree * Turkish coffee * wake up and smell the coffeeSee also
* arabica * cappuccino * * * cafeteria * * * * * coffea * decaf * demitasse * eccoccino * espresso * espresso breve * flat white * frappuccino * java * kaffeeklatsch * latte * long black * macchiato * mocha * mochaccino * robusta * short black * speedball * Tia Maria *Verb
- I rushed into my cabin, coffeed , wined, and went to bed sobbing.
- It was exactly 11 a.m. We had been coffeeing for one hour, and our coffee cups were empty.
External links
*The Origins of Coffe on Foodie’s Corner*
Podictionary article on “coffee” including its relationship with wine*
PBS documentary *Black Coffee, The Irresistable Bean. Discusses the origin of the word including the relationship with wine. Starts at 10:521000 English basic words
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.
