Pecan vs Null - What's the difference?
pecan | null |
A deciduous tree, , of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
* 1885 , Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories , page 154:
* 1978 April, in the Texas Monthly , page 51:
A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
* 1982 , Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart , page 17:
A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
* 2005 , in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books, ISBN 978-0-7434-7402-3):
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 pecan and null
is that pecan is a deciduous tree, , of the central and southern united states, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pecan
English
(wikipedia pecan)Alternative forms
* paccan, peccanNoun
(en noun)- And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans , standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still.
- Within its ornamental fence, the 8/10-acre property includes several of the largest live oaks in the area — plus huge pecans and stately magnolias.
- MEG. (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together. ) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!
- LENNY. We have a nutcracker!
- MEG. (Trying with her teeth. ) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?
- Each shell contains two pecans , usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.
See also
* pekanReferences
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.