Spatchcock vs Null - What's the difference?
spatchcock | null |
To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.
To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)
*1922 , Joyce, Ulysses ,
To prepare in haste.
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 spatchcock and null
is that spatchcock is chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking (see below) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb spatchcock
is to cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.spatchcock
English
Verb
(en verb)- spatchcocked chicken
- Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?
Usage notes
* Also known as Frogging the chicken.See also
* butterfly * spitchcocknull
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.