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Scraper vs Null - What's the difference?

scraper | null |

As nouns the difference between scraper and null

is that scraper is an instrument with which anything is scraped while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

scraper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instrument with which anything is scraped.
  • An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
  • An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
  • An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
  • In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
  • One who scrapes horns.
  • One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
  • One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
  • Anagrams

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    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 ----