Ricer vs Null - What's the difference?
ricer | null |
(US) A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests rice.
* 1967 , The New Yorker , Volume 43, Part 6,
* 1988 , Thomas Vennum, Wild Rice and the Ojibway People ,
* 1999' September 19, , ''Under the Wild Rice Moon'', ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', reprinted in '''2002 , ''The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings ,
(cooking) A utensil used to extrude soft foods (such as, and especially, cooked potato) through holes about the diameter of a grain of rice.
* 2007 , Patricia Webster Stewart, Stuck in My Own Family Tree ,
* 2008 , Leanne Kitchen, The Greengrocer ,
* 2013 , Tara Mataraza Desmond, Choosing Sides: From Holidays to Every Day, 130 Delicious Recipes to Make the Meal ,
(US, slang, derogatory) An imported automobile from an Oriental country, deemed inferior because it is low-powered and/or cheap.
(US, slang, derogatory) A person who drives such an automobile.
(US, slang, derogatory) A person who modifies such an automobile using after-market parts to give it the appearance of being more powerful or sporty.
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 ricer and null
is that ricer is (us) a person, especially a native american, who cultivates and harvests rice while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ricer
English
(Potato ricer)Noun
(en noun)page 41:
- He opened the cashbox and counted out the money, and Martin handed it on to one of the ricers .
- "Where are you guys ricing tomorrow?" he said.
- "Down in the Refuge," the ricer with the money said.
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- In exchange for use of a buyer's boat, the ricers were to sell what they harvested exclusively to him.
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- There are also lots of ricers'. By two weeks into ricing season, Native Harvest bought from 30 or 40 ' ricers .
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- He cooked a roast, made applesauce with the ricer and used every size pan he could find to cook vegetables.
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- Ricers can also be used for mashing other root vegetables, as well as starchy ones like broad (fava) beans and peas.
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- Passing cooked chunks through a basic, inexpensive handheld ricer maximizes their texture, which is less starchy than their russet brethren, and makes a soft, dry pile that simply stirs into creamy, smooth mounds.
Synonyms
* (imported oriental automobile) rice burner * (kitchen implement) potato masher, potato ricerAnagrams
* *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.