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Soupline vs Null - What's the difference?

soupline | null |

As nouns the difference between soupline and null

is that soupline is a line (queue) which disadvantaged people can join to receive free soup while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

soupline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A line (queue) which disadvantaged people can join to receive free soup.
  • * 1944 , Paul C Bussard, Catholic digest?
  • Most picturesque of all these classifications is the soupline , where free meals are served at 6 AM, 11 AM, and 4 PM.
  • * 1986 , Marjorie Hope, James Young, The Faces of Homelessness?
  • By the last half of the month, our soupline has grown longer and longer.
  • * 1988 , Patrick G Coy, A Revolution of the Heart: essays on the Catholic worker?
  • Verbal fights over missing clothing, a lost place in the soupline , an antagonistic glance from another guest, or just the need to blow off steam...

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----