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Poutine vs Null - What's the difference?

poutine | null |

As a proper noun poutine

is putin a transliteration of the russian surname .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

poutine

Noun

  • (Quebec) A dish consisting of french fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada
  • Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine .
  • (Quebec) Any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
  • In Italian poutine , gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.

    Derived terms

    * Italian poutine ----

    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 ----