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Stringer vs Null - What's the difference?

stringer | null |

As nouns the difference between stringer and null

is that stringer is someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

stringer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
  • * Ascham
  • Be content to put your trust in honest stringers .
  • Someone who leads someone along.
  • A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel
  • A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
  • (surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
  • Line up the 1/2 template with the stringer (or draw a center line) — Stephen Pirsch [http://www.surfersteve.com/shaping.htm]
  • A hard-hit ball.
  • (fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
  • Janice pulled the bluegill out of the water and added it to her stringer .
  • A pallet or skid used when shipping LTL [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less-Than-Truckload_(LTL)_Shipping] freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
  • (obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

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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 ----