Tartan vs Null - What's the difference?
tartan | null |
A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
The pattern associated with such material.
An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
Having a pattern like a tartan.
* 1929 , , (A House Is Built) , Chapter IX, Section iii
*:In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
(humorous) Scottish.
A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
* 1877 , (Jules Verne), Ellen E. Frewer (translator), , Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
* 1896 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
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 tartan and null
is that tartan is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tartan
English
Etymology 1
Blend of (etyl) . (wikipedia tartan)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
, from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin.Alternative forms
* tartane * tartanaNoun
(en noun)- Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan , and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
- When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans , with wine, food, and powder.
Anagrams
* * ----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.