Pottle vs Null - What's the difference?
pottle | null |
(archaic) A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot of around this size.
* Sir Walter Scott:
* Thomas Dekker:
(New Zealand) A conical receptacle, typically for potato chips or other foodstuffs.
A pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
* Charles Dickens
* 2005 , English Folktales (ISBN 1591582601), page 21:
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 pottle and null
is that pottle is (archaic) a former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot of around this size while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pottle
English
Noun
(en noun)- a dry pottle of sack before him
- a pottle of Greek wine
- He had a pottle of strawberries in one hand.
- "I was wondering whether you've got such a thing as a pottle of brains to spare?"
Synonyms
* (a receptacle for strawberries) punnet (British, New Zealand)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.