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Shingle vs Null - What's the difference?

shingle | null |

As nouns the difference between shingle and null

is that shingle is a small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building or shingle can be a punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking or shingle can be small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb shingle

is to cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles or shingle can be (industry) to hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.

shingle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) scincle, from (etyl) scindula.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
  • * Ray
  • I reached St. Asaph, where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
  • A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
  • A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
  • See also

    * shake * tile

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  • To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
  • Derived terms

    * shingler * shingly * to hang out one's shingle

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal (etyl)

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • (industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  • To lash with a shingle.
  • ''The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
  • (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
  • Etymology 3

    Probably cognate to the (etyl) , both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
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  • References

    * * (CorPun) & [http://www.corpun.com/picpar.htm

    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 ----