Picket vs Null - What's the difference?
picket | null |
A stake driven into the ground.
(historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
(military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
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, chapter=26, title= A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
* , chapter=22
, title= (card games) The card game piquet.
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
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 picket and null
is that picket is a stake driven into the ground while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb picket
is to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.picket
English
Noun
(en noun)- So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
The Dust of Conflict, passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket , and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
Verb
(en verb)- to picket a horse
Derived terms
* picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----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.