Puffing vs Null - What's the difference?
puffing | null |
(United States) Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
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The act of one who puffs.
A puffy ornament.
* 1825 , The Ladies' Monthly Museum (volume 21, page 50)
(legal) An opinion or judgment, often made by the seller of property to a potential buyer, that is not made as a representation of fact.
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 puffing and null
is that puffing is the act of one who puffs while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb puffing
is .puffing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the puffings and pantings of a man running to catch a train
- Evening dresses are trimmed in a variety of ways, with puffings of crape, fringes, and ornaments, of the richest patterns
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.