Rye vs Null - What's the difference?
rye | null |
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
Rye bread.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
Caraway
Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
A disease of hawks.
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 rye and null
is that rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rye
English
(wikipedia rye)Noun
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- (Ainsworth)
Derived terms
* ryegrassAnagrams
* English three-letter wordsnull
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.