Shearling vs Null - What's the difference?
shearling | null |
A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
* {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97
, passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}
(chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
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 shearling and null
is that shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.shearling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her coat was lined with shearling.
Coordinate terms
* roughy * clippy * wether * hogSee also
* (wikipedia "shearling")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.