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putting | null |

As nouns the difference between putting and null

is that putting is (obsolete) instigation or incitement; enticement or putting can be (golf) the action of the verb to putt while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb putting

is or putting can be (golf).

putting

English

Etymology 1

See put

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • (obsolete) Instigation or incitement; enticement.
  • * 1736 , Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ , page 353:
  • ...and then if there be a putting in fear al?o, the clergy is ou?ted in all the ca?es mentiond in this ?tatute.
  • The action or result of the verb put .
  • Etymology 2

    See putt

    Verb

    (head)
  • (golf)
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (golf) The action of the verb to putt .
  • (golf) A variety of golf in which balls are tapped into holes over short distances using a putter.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    See also

    * (l) English heteronyms

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----