Ooze vs Null - What's the difference?
ooze | null |
Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
Secretion, humour.
A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
To be secreted or slowly leak.
* 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ISBN 0671654241,
* 1994 , Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , Vintage Books (1995), ISBN 9780679740087,
* 2011 , Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch , Flux (2011), ISBN 9780738725826,
(figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
* 1989 , Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour , Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ISBN 9781453231548,
* 1999 , Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility , Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ISBN 9780823012077,
* {{quote-news
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Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
* Shakespeare
A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
The liquor of a tanning vat.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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 ooze and null
is that ooze is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning or ooze can be soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb ooze
is to be secreted or slowly leak.ooze
English
Etymology 1
* ()'' (etyl) . * ()'' (etyl) ''wosen'', from ''wose 'sap'; see above.Noun
(en noun)Verb
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- Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
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- He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
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- Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
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- "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
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- There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
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Etymology 2
(etyl) wose'', from (etyl) '''' 'mud, mire', from (etyl) . More at virus.Noun
(en noun)- My son i' the ooze is bedded.
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.