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Tarpaulin vs Null - What's the difference?

tarpaulin | null |

As nouns the difference between tarpaulin and null

is that tarpaulin is a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

tarpaulin

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover.
  • Throw a tarpaulin over that woodpile before it gets wet.
  • (countable, slang, archaic) A sailor. Often abbreviated to just tar.
  • (uncountable, obsolete) Any heavy, waterproof material used as a cover.
  • (uncountable, nautical, obsolete) Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover.
  • A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
  • Usage notes

    * In the US, tarp is more commonly used than tarpaulin, even in print.

    Derived terms

    * tarp

    See also

    * pall

    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 ----