Trunk vs Null - What's the difference?
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Part of a body.
#The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
#The torso.
#The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.
#The proboscis of an insect.
(lb) A container.
#A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.
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#*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks , swarm in the corridors.
#A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:locked up in chests and trunks
# The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
(lb) A channel for flow of some kind.
# A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
#A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
#A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
#(lb) A long tube through which pellets of clay, pas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
#*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
#*:He shot sugarplums at them out of a trunk .
#(lb) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
The main line or body of anything.
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#(lb) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
#(lb) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
(obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
* Spenser
(mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
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 trunk and null
is that trunk is drink while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.trunk
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* boot (UK, Aus ) * (upright part of a tree) tree trunk * (nose of an elephant) proboscisDerived terms
* tree trunk * trunk roadExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Out of the trunked stock.
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.