Washing vs Null - What's the difference?
washing | null |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to wash
(uncountable, chiefly, British, NZ) Clothing, bed linen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
* My mother used to do the washing on a Monday
(countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
* The washings have a higher concentration of metal
The liquid used to wash an ore.
A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
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 washing and null
is that washing is (uncountable) the action of the verb to wash while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb washing
is .washing
English
Noun
- the gold-washings''', or silver-'''washings
Synonyms
* (articles that have been or are to be washed): laundry (especially US)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.