Punnet vs Null - What's the difference?
punnet | null |
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
* 1904 , Arthur George Liddon Rogers, The Business Side of Agriculture , 2010, Forgotten Books,
* 1917 , Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher, The Strawberry in North America: History, Origin, Botany, and Breeding ,
* 1933 , South Australian Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Journal of Agriculture, South Australia , Volume 36,
* 1982 , New Zealand Department of Agriculture, New Zealand journal of agriculture ,
* 2005 , , The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets ,
* 2007 May 13, Amelia Hill, ,
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 punnet and null
is that punnet is (uk|australia|new zealand) a small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.punnet
English
(wikipedia punnet)Noun
(en noun)page 85:
- Thus, according to the same Year-Book'', a sea-kale punnet''' measures 8 in. in diameter at the top and 7½ in. at the bottom, being 2 in. deep, while a radish '''punnet''' is 8 in. in diameter and 1 in. deep, if to hold six “hands,” or 9 in. by 1 in. for twelve “hands.” A mushroom '''punnet''' is 7 in. by 1 in., while a salading ' punnet is 5 in. by 2 in.
pages 77-78:
- Another type of splint basket, called a punnet', was used in the strawberry trade of New York City between 1815 and 1850.' Punnets and pottles found little favor except in the vicinity of Boston and New York and were soon discarded for more convenient and less expensive packages.
page 1292:
- Most of the fruit for market is picked and sold in punnets , but for jam making buckets are used, similar to the raspberry bucket.
page 13:
- Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet .
page 408:
- However we recommend, particularly in cooler climates, sowing tomato seeds into a seed tray or punnet and allowing the seedlings to grow before they are transplanted into the garden.
Forget superfoods, you can?t beat an apple a day:
- ‘But rather than spend £5 on a small punnet of exotic berries, a family would be better off buying regular and larger quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables from their local market.’
Synonyms
* (receptacle for strawberries) chip (qualifier), pottlenull
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.