Putty vs Null - What's the difference?
putty | null |
Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.
A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
Any of a range of similar substances.
to fix something using putty
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 putty and null
is that putty is a form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective putty
is of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.As a verb putty
is to fix something using putty.putty
English
(wikipedia putty)Adjective
(er)Noun
(putties)Derived terms
* putty in someone's handsVerb
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.