Sluff vs Null - What's the difference?
sluff | null |
(skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
(dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
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* {{quote-web, date=2002-03-02, author=Sid Perkins, title=Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow., site=The Free Library, url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Avalanche!+Scientists+are+digging+out+the+secrets+of+lethal+flows+of+...-a084054171,
, passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}
(to shed or to slide off).
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ignore, shrug (off)
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(discard).
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times
, passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}
to avoid working
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 an acronym sluff
is (slang|us|air force) short little ugly fat fellow (or fucker); us airforce nickname for the a-7 bomber.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sluff
English
Alternative forms
* sloughNoun
(en noun)- That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
Verb
(en verb)citation
- He's sluffing off somewhere.
Derived terms
* sluffyAnagrams
*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.