Rug vs Null - What's the difference?
rug | null |
A partial covering for a floor.
(UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
* 1855 , , A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book ,
* 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia ,
* 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia , Volume 22,
* 1997 , Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes ,
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
* Holinshed
A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
(slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
(Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
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 rug and null
is that rug is horn while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rug
English
Noun
(en noun)page 254,
- They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
page 2297,
- Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug', and, in winter time, not less than one additional ' rug .
page 181,
- My own son had a bunny rug' of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny ' rug to suck his finger with.?
page 22,
- He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
- They spin the choicest rug' in Ireland. A friend of mine repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford ' rugs .
Usage notes
* (partial floor covering) The terms rug'' and carpet are not precise synonyms: a ''rug'' covers part of the floor; a ''carpet'' covers most or a large area of the floor; a ''fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.Synonyms
* (small carpet) carpet, mat * (wig) toupee, wigDerived terms
* area rug * cut a rug * scatter rug * snug as a bug in a rugVerb
(rugg)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Derived terms
* rug up (Webster 1913)External links
* * *Anagrams
* ----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.
