Stool vs Null - What's the difference?
stool | null |
A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
A footstool.
Feces; excrement.
(label) A decoy.
A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
Throne.
(label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
(label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
*1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
*:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
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 stool and null
is that stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest or stool can be a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb stool
is (agriculture) to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.stool
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.Noun
(en noun)- (Totten)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
{{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}See also
* chair * seatEtymology 2
(etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* loots * tools ----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.