Tissue vs Null - What's the difference?
tissue | null |
Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
* Dryden
* Milton
A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
Absorbent paper as material.
(biology) A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
* 1924 , ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at:
Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
* A. J. Balfour
To form tissue of; to interweave.
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 tissue and null
is that tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb tissue
is to form tissue of; to interweave.tissue
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue . […].}}
- a robe of tissue , stiff with golden wire
- In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.
- But it is similarly necessary that flesh and each of the other tissues should be the ratio of its elements, or that not one of them should;
- a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
- unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
Verb
(tissu)- Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.
Anagrams
*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.