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Truss vs Null - What's the difference?

truss | null |

In transitive terms the difference between truss and null

is that truss is to support while null is to nullify; to annul.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

truss

English

(wikipedia truss)

Noun

(trusses)
  • A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2008 , author=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , title=Professional Guide to Diseases , chapter=4 , isbn=0781778999 , page=280 , passage=A truss may keep the abdominal contents from protruding into the hernial sac; however, this won't cure the hernia.}}
  • (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
  • (architecture) A triangular bracket.
  • An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
  • (obsolete) A bundle; a package.
  • * Spenser
  • bearing a truss of trifles at his back
  • (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
  • * Drayton
  • Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss , which bore / The stains of ancient arms.
  • (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
  • (botany) A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
  • (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To tie up a bird before cooking it.
  • To secure or bind with ropes.
  • To support.
  • To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
  • * Spenser
  • who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
  • To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
  • (slang, archaic) To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up .
  • (Sir Walter Scott)

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    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 ----