Waffled vs Null - What's the difference?
waffled | null |
Having a waffle-like pattern of intersecting creases.
* 2001 , Randy Holderfield, Michael J. Varhola, D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 , page 73:
* 2001 , Rela Mazali, Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings , page 213:
* 2004 , , Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings , HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-056668-5,
* 2007 , , Flash of Eden , AuthorHouse, ISBN 978-1-4343-4070-2,
* 1996 , Michael D. Tusiani, The Petroleum Shipping Industry: A nontechnical overview :
(waffle)
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 an adjective waffled
is having a waffle-like pattern of intersecting creases.As a verb waffled
is (waffle).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.waffled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The US "pineapple" grenade's iron outer surface was waffled to aid its fragmentation into jagged shrapnel when it exploded.
- In a light white dress that I think was waffled cotton, or possibly a very light pastel blue. The color occurs to me when I look at the photo, unembodied, floating alongside of it. It's in black and white. Probably snapped before color [...]
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- Nate and Amy were waiting in the lobby of the Maui county jail in Wailuku, sitting in metal chairs designed to promote discomfort and waffled butt skin.
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- You have seen catering trucks: shiny stainless steel that is waffled with creases that look like diamonds.
- The primary barrier between the cargo and the first layer of insulation, and the secondary barrier between the two layers of insulation, were waffled or corrugated stainless steel plates free to contract or expand independently [...]
Verb
(head)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.