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Parlor vs Null - What's the difference?

parlor | null |

As nouns the difference between parlor and null

is that parlor is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

parlor

English

Alternative forms

* parlour (British)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.
  • *, chapter=12
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor . 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.}}
  • (label) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
  • A room for lounging; a sitting-room; a drawing room.
  • (label) A comfortable room in a public house.
  • A covered open-air patio.
  • A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
  • A shed used for milking cattle.
  • Derived terms

    * beauty parlor * beer parlor * betting parlor * funeral parlor * ice cream parlor * massage parlor * parlormaid * parlor game * parlor trick * pigs in the parlour

    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 ----