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Skillygalee vs Null - What's the difference?

skillygalee | null |

As nouns the difference between skillygalee and null

is that skillygalee is (obsolete|nautical) a type of gruel made from oatmeal while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

skillygalee

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete, nautical) A type of gruel made from oatmeal
  • * 2005 Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Steve Noon, Nelson's Sailors , Osprey Publishing, p24
  • Breakfast was served at 8am and sometimes consisted of skillygalee , a sort of oatmeal gruel prepared in fatty water and which by the time of Trafalgar included butter and sugar.
  • (obsolete) A thin broth prepared by soaking hardtack in water, and frying with pork fat
  • * 2004 Brian Leehan, Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg , Minnesota Historical Society Press, p200
  • Skillygalee was born of left-over pork grease and crackers too tough to bite and chew.

    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 ----