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Overcoat vs Null - What's the difference?

overcoat | null |

As nouns the difference between overcoat and null

is that overcoat is a heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb overcoat

is to apply an exterior coating to.

overcoat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
  • *, chapter=10
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats , nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , chapter=5, title= The China Governess , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}

    See also

    * balmacaan * raglan

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply an exterior coating to.
  • * 2004 , James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications (page 128)
  • One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

    Anagrams

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    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 ----