Ache vs Null - What's the difference?
ache | null |
To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
* Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , Act II, Scene V:
* , chapter=7
, title= (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
* Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, Scene II:
wild celery
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 a proper noun ache
is a language spoken by the yi people of south-western china.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ache
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.Verb
- Fie, how my bones ache!
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache , the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Derived terms
* ache forSee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Fill all thy bones with aches .
Derived terms
* aches and pains * achy * backache * bellyache * earache * headache * stomachache * toothacheReferences
* Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition.Etymology 2
From (etyl) and modern (etyl) ache, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
Representing the pronunciation of the letter H .Anagrams
* English heteronyms ---- ==Jèrriais==Noun
Synonyms
* ----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.