Baff vs Null - What's the difference?
baff | null |
To hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft.
(golf) To strike the ground with the bottom of the club when taking a stroke.
(Geordie) blank
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 baff and null
is that baff is (geordie) blank while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb baff
is (archaic) to bark; yelp or baff can be to hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft.baff
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) (French baffe), of imitative origin.Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* baffed outEtymology 3
Noun
(-)References
* *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.