Silk vs Null - What's the difference?
silk | null |
(uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
(uncountable) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
That which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
(colloquial) A Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
Made of .
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk -hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
Looking like silk, silken.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 To remove the silk from (corn).
* 2013 , Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came (page 17)
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 silk and null
is that silk is (uncountable) a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective silk
is made of.As a verb silk
is to remove the silk from (corn).silk
English
(wikipedia silk)Noun
(en noun)- The silk thread was barely visible.
- I had a small square of silk , but it wasn't enough to make what I wanted.
Derived terms
* make a silk purse of a sow's ear * silken * silky * silkweaver * silkweaving * silkworm * smooth as silk * take silkSee also
* sericinAdjective
(-)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
(en verb)- While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes
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.