Puftaloon vs Null - What's the difference?
puftaloon | null |
(Australia) A fried scone-like fritter originally from Australia.
* 1983 , , Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z , 2009,
* 2002 , Marion Houldsworth, Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s , 2012,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
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 puftaloon and null
is that puftaloon is (australia) a fried scone-like fritter originally from australia while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.puftaloon
English
(wikipedia puftaloon)Noun
(en noun)page 484,
- It seems that puftaloons' are particular to Australia, where, traditionally, they are eaten hot with golden syrup or treacle. ' Puftaloons are a type of scone dough fried in plenty of hot dripping or a light vegetable oil.
page 4,
- And the puftaloons' that he would make! He?d mix up a batter and put them in the frying-pan. '''Puftaloons''' are just like scones, only they?re fried in the pan instead of baked in the oven, because we always had plenty of dripping. ' Puftaloons and syrup! We used to love them. That was a treat!
page 423,
- Returning to the kitchen she puts the kettle on for the hot water bottle, and takes some cold puftaloons from the icebox, placing them on the stove to warm for a few minutes while she writes a short note on a piece of quarto paper.
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.