Doona vs Null - What's the difference?
doona | null |
(en noun)
(Australia) A padded blanket.
* 2002 , Lisa Forrest, DJ Max ,
* 2005 , Josephine Wilson, Cusp ,
* 2011 , Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Spotless: Room-by-Room Solutions to Domestic Disasters ,
(label) Do not.
* 2005 , Karen Marie Moning, Spell of the Highlander ,
* 2005 , Harold Cheney, Jack of Tabbyshire'', ''Jack of Tabbyshire and Other Grandfather Tales ,
* 2007 , Margo Maguire, A Warrior?s Taking ,
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 doona
is a irish family name.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.doona
English
Etymology 1
Originally a product name.Noun
unnumnbered page,
- She got up, dragged the doona around her shoulders and tiptoed into the spare room.
page 211,
- Lena pulled the doona over her head.
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- Doonas' can be made of goose feathers, wool or synthetics. Wash them twice a year or even more if you sweat a lot. You can tell it?s time for a wash when the fibres are packed down and lumpy, or the ' doona smells.
Synonyms
* duvet (UK) * quilt (US)See also
* eiderdownEtymology 2
Contraction
(en-cont)page 122,
- “I doona ken how he found us,” he muttered darkly.
page 9,
- “Are you talking to those cats again? Do you really think they listen? Do you really think they understand?”
- “I doona' know, Grandma. And I ' doona care.”
page 286,
- “Oh, and doona go near the ruins or the castle when I leave,” he said, picking up the book and heading for the door.
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.