Puttee vs Null - What's the difference?
puttee | null |
A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
*1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 113:
*:he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.
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 a verb puttee
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.puttee
English
Noun
(en noun)References
* McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary , Oxford university press. 1993 * Platts, John T.A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and EnglishOxford. 1884. * Cappeller, Carl
A Sanskrit-English dictionaryBostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.
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.