Setter vs Null - What's the difference?
setter | null |
One who sets something, especially a typesetter
A long-haired breed of gundog ().
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=7/2 (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting]], or [[pass, passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
(computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
(sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 29
, author=Kevin Mitchell
, title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau
, work=the Guardian
One who hunts victims for sharpers.
One who adapts words to music in composition.
A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
(Webster 1913)
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 setter and null
is that setter is one who sets something, especially a typesetter while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb setter
is (uk|dialect|transitive) to cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.setter
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
- She has a spaniel and a red setter .
citation, passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
citation, page= , passage=It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses. }}
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Derived terms
* English setter * Gordon setter * Irish red and white setter * Irish setter * red setterSynonyms
* (computing) mutatorSee also
* getterReferences
* OED2Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)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.