Trowel vs Null - What's the difference?
trowel | null |
A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
A tool used for smoothing a mold.
To apply a substance with a trowel.
* 2014 , Steve Rose, "
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 nouns the difference between trowel and null
is that trowel is a mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb trowel
is to apply a substance with a trowel.trowel
English
Noun
(en noun)- I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel ?
Derived terms
* pointing-trowelVerb
- ''He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian , 1 July 2014:
- The whole Planet of the Apes set-up has been ripe for metaphor – from slavery and Afro-American revolution to European conquest of the Americas, even the war on terror. But mercifully, there's no big subtext being troweled on here.
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.