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Raffle vs Null - What's the difference?

raffle | null |

As nouns the difference between raffle and null

is that raffle is a drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb raffle

is to award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.

raffle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
  • He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
  • (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
  • (Cotgrave)

    Derived terms

    * meat raffle

    Verb

  • To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
  • They raffled off four gift baskets.
  • To participate in a raffle.
  • to raffle for a watch

    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 ----