Sill vs Null - What's the difference?
sill | null |
(architecture) (also window sill ) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also spelled cill. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.
(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
* 1980 , U.S. Government Printing Office,
A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
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 sill and null
is that sill is (architecture) (also window sill ) a horizontal slat which forms the base of a window or sill can be (uk) a young herring or sill can be the shaft or thill of a carriage while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sille, selle, .Noun
(en noun)- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill .
Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses;
- the nasal sill
Usage notes
Usually spelled cill when used in the context of canal or river engineering.Derived terms
* mudsill * groundsill * window sillQuotations
* (English Citations of "sill")Etymology 2
Compare sile.Etymology 3
Compare thill.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.