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velvet | null |

As nouns the difference between velvet and null

is that velvet is a closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb velvet

is (cooking) to coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

As an adjective velvet

is made of velvet.

velvet

English

(wikipedia velvet)

Noun

  • A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
  • (rare ): A female chinchilla; a sow.
  • Derived terms

    * black velvet * Velvet Revolution * velvety (adjective)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of velvet.
  • Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
  • * Milton
  • The cowslip's velvet head.
  • (label) peaceful, carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
  • * 1995 , Amin Saikal, William Maley, Russia in Search of Its Future , page 214
  • What at the time of the initial agreement of Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kravchuk to join together in a new 'Commonwealth of Independent States' had seemed like a reconstitution of the lands of ancient Rus, quickly turned out to be, in the words of the leading Russian-Ukrainian reformer Aleksandr Tsipko, merely a 'velvet disintegration'.
  • * 2006 , The Analyst: Central and Eastern European Review
  • The disintegration always took place within internal borders, whether it was velvet , as in the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or bloody, like Yugoslavia&
  • 39;s still unfinished break-up.
  • * 2011 , David Gillies, Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding , page 248:
  • If the Sudanese can resolve the final steps in a velvet divorce and move in a more democratic direction, that will serve as a heartening "ideal model of change"
  • * 2011 , Javad Etaat quoted in Hooman Majd, The Ayatollahs' Democracy: An Iranian Challenge , page 39:
  • “I was once invited to give a speech about the attempt to topple Iran's political system through a ‘velvet' revolution,’ ” says Etaat in the debate, “but we all know that ‘' velvet revolutions’ always occur in dictatorships.”
  • * 2014 , Dana H. Allin, NATO's Balkan Interventions , page 97
  • There is such a thing as a velvet divorce: if Canada or Belgium were to split apart, the consequences would be unfortunate but manageable.

    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 ----