Whitewash vs Null - What's the difference?
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A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
* 1952 : For walls plaster gave a smooth white surface; or if it was not sufficiently white, or had become discoloured, it could be brightened up with a coat of whitewash or paint. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 157.
(sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
* 2010 , Andrew Miller, Cricinfo :
(obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
(idiomatic) To cover over errors or bad actions.
(dated) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
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To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
(acting) To choose white film or television actors to portray characters that were Asian, African, or other races.
(pejorative) To make over (an Asian, African, or person of another race, especially a woman) to look Caucasian.
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 whitewash and null
is that whitewash is a lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whitewash
is to paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.whitewash
English
(wikipedia whitewash)Noun
(es)- For the first time in a long time, Australia are being threatened with the prospect of a 5-0 whitewash
- (Addison)
Verb
(es)- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood .
- In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church .
See also
* blackwashnull
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.