Saloop vs Null - What's the difference?
saloop | null |
salep.
(dated) An aromatic drink originally prepared from salep, and later from sassafras bark and other ingredients such as milk and sugar, once popular in London, England.
* 1835 , London Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 7,
* 2003 , Antony Clayton, London's Coffee Houses: A Stimulating Story ,
* 2004 , Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson, Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge ,
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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 saloop and null
is that saloop is salep while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.saloop
English
(wikipedia saloop)Alternative forms
* saloupNoun
(en-noun)page 703,
- In simple ordinary diarrhœa, a mixture is prescribed, consisting of two ounces of a decoction of mallow and saloop , and two drops of Sydenham's laudanum.
page 31,
- As an alternative to coffee — in periods such as the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it became expensive — a patron might request saloop .
page 261,
- He[Charles Lamb] reveals some of their tastes - their likes and dislikes, their humour. And, characteristically, he does so in a digression, that turns out not to be a digression at all, about saloop , a drink made from 'the sweet wood yclept sassafras' and sold at roadside stalls throughout London.
Derived terms
*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.