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Oatmeal vs Null - What's the difference?

oatmeal | null |

As nouns the difference between oatmeal and null

is that oatmeal is meal made from rolled or round oats while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective oatmeal

is of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.

oatmeal

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Meal made from rolled or round oats.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke , passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal -like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.}}
  • A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water (porridge in UK).
  • a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal
  • Derived terms

    * oatmeal drink * oatmeal porridge

    See also

    * brose * flummery * gruel * mealie pudding * oatcake * oaten * parkin * porridge * rolled oats * skilly * stirabout *

    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 ----