Tinder vs Null - What's the difference?
tinder | null |
small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
To set fire to; torch.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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.
In transitive terms the difference between tinder and null
is that tinder is to set fire to; torch while null is to nullify; to annul.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.tinder
English
Noun
(wikipedia tinder) (-)Usage notes
Tinder refers to the first stage of building a fire: sparks light tinder, which then lights kindling, which then lights the main fire.Derived terms
* tinder box, tinderboxCoordinate terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?
References
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.