Purl vs Null - What's the difference?
purl | null |
A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
(knitting) an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
(archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
* Alexander Pope
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
* Shakespeare
(UK, dialect) A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
* Drayton
(UK, dialect) A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
(archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
* The Spectator , number 88
(archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
* Addison
* Charles Dickens
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 purl and null
is that purl is a particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance or purl can be a heavy or headlong fall; an upset or purl can be (uk|dialect) a circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple or purl can be (archaic) ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic or purl can be (uk|dialect) a tern while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb purl
is to decorate with fringe or embroidered edge or purl can be (archaic) to upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong or purl can be to flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.purl
English
Etymology 1
Etymology uncertain; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl ("twist, ripple, whirl, spin"), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetian pirlo , an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.Noun
(en noun)- A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl.
Verb
(en verb)- Needlework purled with gold.
- Knit one, purl two.
Etymology 2
from (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- The huntsman was purled from his horse.
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
- thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
Noun
(en noun)- Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, / Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles , / As though the waves had been of silver curls.
- the purl of a brook
Etymology 4
Possibly from the pearl-like appearance caused by bubbles on the surface of the liquid.Noun
(-)- A double mug of purle .
- Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
- Drinking hot purl , and smoking pipes.
Etymology 5
Anagrams
*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.