Dusting vs Null - What's the difference?
dusting | null |
A light snowfall.
A light covering of something.
The act of removing dust from, as a household chore.
* (Francis Hopkinson Smith), Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero
A .
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 dusting and null
is that dusting is a light snowfall while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb dusting
is .dusting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
- Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting .
- Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.
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.