Sod vs Null - What's the difference?
sod | null |
(uncountable) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
* Collins
Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
To cover with sod.
(British, vulgar) Sodomite; bugger.
(British, slang, mildly pejorative, formerly considered vulgar) A person, usually male; (often qualified with an adjective).
(UK, vulgar) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.
(transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Bugger; sodomize.
(transitive, British, slang, vulgar) Damn, curse, confound.
(obsolete) (seethe)
(obsolete) Boiled.
*, New York, 2001, p.223:
(Australia, of bread) Sodden; incompletely risen.
(Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
* 1954 , Tom Ronan, Vision Splendid'', quoted in Tom Burton, ''Words in Your Ear , Wakefield Press (1999), ISBN 1-86254-475-1, page 120:
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 sod and null
is that sod is sodium while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sod
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(-)- She there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
- The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall.
Verb
(sodd)- He sodded the worn areas twice a year.
Etymology 2
From sodomize, by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- You mean old sod !
- poor sod
- unlucky sod
Derived terms
* Sod’s lawInterjection
(en interjection)Verb
(sodd)- Sod''' him!'', '''''Sod''' it!'', '''''Sod that bastard!
Derived terms
* sod offEtymology 3
Originally a the past participle ((sodden)).Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Beer, if it be over-new, or over-stale, over-strong, or not sod ,is most unwholesome, frets, and galls, etc.
- sod damper
Noun
(en noun)- And Mart the cook the shovel took / And swung the damper to and fro. / 'Another sod , so help me God, / That's fourteen in a flamin' row.
Etymology 4
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.