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Shadder vs Null - What's the difference?

shadder | null |

As nouns the difference between shadder and null

is that shadder is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

shadder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=John Hay, et al., title=Not Pretty, But Precious, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Nex' room my boy lies in the shadder an' dark. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1876, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=We spotted the shadder to a dot." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Marietta Holley, title=Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And I see with joy that the shadder on my pardner's face lifted quite a little durin' our stay there, but of course this belated us and we didn't git to St. Louis till Saturday late in the afternoon. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Henry Wallace Phillips, title=Mr. Scraggs, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And yet that Chink had the innocentest face in Utah; he might ha' stood for a picture of Adam before Eve cast a shadder on his manly brow. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Francis Lynde, title=The Taming of Red Butte Western, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was Hallock again--or Hallock's shadder follerin' him at a good long range!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=But ole Sim Salper is never a-goin' to fret hisself to a shadder about it. }}

    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 ----