What's the difference between closet and null?

Closet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.
  • (n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
  • (n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.
  • (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The association of ankylosing spondylarthritis with the B locus and more specifically with the B 27 antigen, is the closet known for any illness.
  • (2) It's a perfect time for gender to come out of the revolution's closet.
  • (3) Early in the film, a journalist comes to interview him about his defunct literary career; he berates her for caring (intellectually, Jep is a closet puritan).
  • (4) When possible the removal of the foreign body was carried out in the quadrant closet to where the foreign body was located and through a site 4-5 mm from the limbus.
  • (5) Blair appears to have few supporters left, as a steady stream of critics old and new emerges from the political closet to point out the negative legacies of his interventionist policies.
  • (6) Women’s protests against this have featured dancing, singing, miniskirts and placards proclaiming: “My body, my money, my closet, my rules.” Despite the repressive government, which has been responsible for homophobic as well as misogynistic new laws, grassroots resistance is growing .
  • (7) His initial instinct – that the party was full of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” – had much to be said for it, but did nothing to stop Ukip’s march.
  • (8) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"
  • (9) Romney has hardly sought to endear himself with Europeans, holding the EU up as a failed model and implicitly accusing Obama of being a closet "European" – big government, social welfare, and "entitlement" culture.
  • (10) It was originally three bedrooms, but after we makeshifted it – changing the closets into rooms and stuff like that – we ended up with about seven "bedrooms".
  • (11) I have a closet full of my mother's letters in plastic boxes; one for each year of our correspondence.
  • (12) It is a sorry reminder that physical evidence must be closeted with care and punctiliously marked for later courtroom uses.
  • (13) "I say to those Tory MPs who share our views and our aspirations: 'Why don't you stop sulking in secret in the corridors of Westminster and come out of the closet?
  • (14) Now, following Dick Pound’s revelations about systemic doping in Russia , Pavey has found her voice, and she warns that solving athletics’ problems will require money, persistence and a willingness to rattle skeletons in even the mustiest of closets.
  • (15) With growing intensity, Zac began to paint Khan as a closet extremist.
  • (16) No one hears about the recovery of the dead bodies … it’s like the dirty, dark secret that’s kept hidden in the closet,” Norris said.
  • (17) (It is for comments like these that he is suspected by German rightwingers of being a closet socialist.
  • (18) And somebody picked it up and said I said gay actors should get back in the closet.
  • (19) Essentially, Conchita was in the closet and wasn't allowed to go out."
  • (20) I'll be walking through an airport, say, and my plane will be four hours late, and a woman cleaner will say: 'Here, take these magazines I've collected', or: 'When I'm tired, I sleep in the closet over there.

Null


Definition:

  • (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
  • (n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
  • (v. t.) To annul.
  • (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
  • (3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
  • (4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
  • (5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
  • (7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
  • (8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
  • (9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
  • (10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
  • (11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
  • (12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
  • (13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
  • (14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
  • (15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
  • (16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
  • (17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
  • (18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
  • (19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
  • (20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.