Toque vs Null - What's the difference?
toque | null |
A type of hat with no brim.
* 1903 —Janet Elder Rait, Alison Howard , Archibald Constable & Co., page 273,
* 1932 —Vyvyan Holland, translator, The Strange River by Julien Green, Harper & Brothers, page 180,
* 1957 —,
(specifically) A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs
* 1999 —Michael Ruhlman, The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America , Owl Books, ISBN 0805061738, page 154,
* 2000 —Jerrilyn Farmer, Killer Wedding , HarperCollins, ISBN 0380795981, page 103,
* 2004 —Laura Levine, Killer Blonde , Kensington Books, ISBN 0758201621, page 114,
(by extension, informal) A chef.
* 2007 —October, Nicole Berrie, "Green Eggs and Sam", in , page 360,
A variety of bonnet monkey; (toque macaque), .
(Canada) A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel.
* 1998 , Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma , ch 1:
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.
As a verb toque
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.toque
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* touqueNoun
(en noun)- "Because Esmé said she was going out this afternoon to choose a new toque , and she hoped I should like it, and I’m not quite sure what it is, or where she'll wear it. Do you mind explaining?"
- "Not at all. A toque is that which if it had strings would be a bonnet, and if it had brim, would be a hat. It is worn on the head."
- "Thanks, now I know where I am," said the vicar of St. Machars, with a sigh of relief.
- She drank a glass of wine mixed with water, took off her felt toque and her shoes, and slid beneath the red eiderdown.
- In a dressing-gown, a stiff toque on his head, a large blood-stained handkerchief over his face, a whistle hanging from his neck, a rug over his knees, thick socks on his feet, Hamm seems to be asleep.
- Chef Felder was in her early forties, slender, with short wavy brown hair, almost all of which could be contained within her toque .
- When I came to the back of a man's head, wearing a toque , I knew I'd spotted my quarry.
- "Chef Reynoso?"
- Minutes later, a red-faced man in a chef's toque approached our table.
- Sam Mason first grabbed the spotlight as the pastry chef ... for being the most rock 'n' roll toque in town.
Etymology 2
1871. Assimilated from tuque.Alternative forms
* tuque (Canada)Noun
(Tuque) (en noun)- Such is the demented nature of the universe that I was too weak to properly respond to my being hit on by carloads of Betties and Veronicas—all except for the cheeky Cheryl Anderson who gave me ‘manual release’ the day I lost my eye-brows, followed by a flood of tears and the snapping of Polaroids in which I wear a knit toque . Gush gush.
Synonyms
* beanie * knit cap * stocking cap * watch capSee also
* winter hat * winter toque * wool hatReferences
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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.