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tooth | null |

As nouns the difference between tooth and null

is that tooth is a hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb tooth

is to provide or furnish with teeth.

tooth

English

(wikipedia tooth)

Noun

(teeth)
  • A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  • A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  • A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  • (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  • (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allow better adhesion of artwork.
  • (figurative) taste; palate
  • I have a sweet tooth : I love sugary treats.
  • * Dryden
  • These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth .

    Hyponyms

    * (structure in the mouth) bicuspid, canine, cuspid, incisor, premolar, molar * See also

    Derived terms

    * back tooth * clean as a hound's tooth * eyetooth * fight tooth and nail * long in the tooth * milk tooth * sweet tooth * teethe verb * toothache * tooth and nail * toothbrush * tooth fairy * toothless * toothpaste * toothpick * toothsome * toothlike * toothly * toothy * wisdom tooth

    See also

    (see also) * bicuspid * canine * cuspid * dental * dentist * denture * fang * incisor * molar * orling * premolar * prong * tine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide or furnish with teeth.
  • * (rfdate) (William Wordsworth)
  • The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
  • To indent; to jag.
  • to tooth a saw
  • To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
  • (Moxon)

    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 ----