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Rinse vs Null - What's the difference?

rinse | null |

As nouns the difference between rinse and null

is that rinse is the action of rinsing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb rinse

is to wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.

rinse

English

Verb

  • To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
  • You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
  • To remove soap from (something) using water.
  • Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
  • (UK, slang) to thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
  • Checkmate!
    Oh no.
    You got rinsed .

    Derived terms

    * rinse off * rinse out

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of rinsing.
  • I'll just give this knife a quick rinse .
  • Any hair dye.
  • I had a henna rinse yesterday.

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    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 ----