Pare vs Null - What's the difference?
pare | null |
to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
to trim the hoof of a horse
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 verb pare
is to seem, to look, to appear.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pare
English
Verb
(par)- We pared the paired pears.
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
Synonyms
* to peel * to skinDerived terms
* cheeseparing * parer * paring * paring knife * pare away * pare down * pare offAnagrams
* ----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.