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Trimming vs Null - What's the difference?

trimming | null |

As nouns the difference between trimming and null

is that trimming is the act of someone who trims while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb trimming

is .

trimming

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of someone who trims.
  • I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.
  • Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
  • :He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.
  • An accompaniment to a meal.
  • :Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
  • (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.
  • to give a boy a trimming

    Verb

    (head)
  • :I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.
  • 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 ----