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Timber vs Null - What's the difference?

timber | null |

As nouns the difference between timber and null

is that timber is postage stamp while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

timber

English

Noun

(wikipedia timber) (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
  • (British, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
  • (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. Historically also used in the plural, as in "ship's timbers".
  • (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer'', ''timbre .
  • (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  • Synonyms

    * (trees considered as a source of wood) timberland, forest * (wood that has been cut ready for construction) lumber (US), wood * (beam used to support a roof) beam, rafter

    Derived terms

    * half-timbered * shiver me timbers * timbered * timberland * timberline * timber wolf * timberyard

    Interjection

    timber!
  • Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fit with timbers.
  • timbering a roof
  • (falconry) To light or land on a tree.
  • (obsolete) To make a nest.
  • To surmount as a timber does.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----