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Platter vs Null - What's the difference?

platter | null |

As nouns the difference between platter and null

is that platter is a tray for serving foods or platter can be one who plats/plaits or braids while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

platter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tray for serving foods.
  • * 1765 , Oliver Goldsmith,
  • While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,
    Displays the cleanly platter on the board;
  • The part of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played, commonly made of aluminum, but sometimes of high-impact plastic.
  • See also
    * on a silver platter * silver platter

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who plats/plaits or braids.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    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 ----