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Scorching vs Null - What's the difference?

scorching | null |

As nouns the difference between scorching and null

is that scorching is the act or result of something being scorched while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective scorching

is very hot.

As a verb scorching

is .

scorching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hot.
  • It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of something being scorched.
  • * 1839 , The Lancet (volume 2, page 682)
  • There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders
  • * 1997 , Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills (page 76)
  • Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.

    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 ----