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Streamer vs Null - What's the difference?

streamer | null |

As nouns the difference between streamer and null

is that streamer is a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

streamer

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *
  • *:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  • Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
  • A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
  • (lb) Of computing.
  • #A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
  • #Any mechanism for ing data.
  • #:
  • (lb) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
  • (lb) One who searches for stream tin.
  • A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
  • *(James Russell Lowell) (1819-1891)
  • *:While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.
  • :(Macaulay)
  • See also

    * stream

    Anagrams

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    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 ----