Balderdash vs Null - What's the difference?
balderdash | null |
senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
(archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
* Taylor (Drink and Welcome )
(archaic) To mix or adulterate.
* Smollett
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 balderdash and null
is that balderdash is senseless talk or writing; nonsense while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb balderdash
is (archaic) to mix or adulterate.balderdash
English
Noun
(-)- Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash .
Synonyms
* bunk, drivel, piffle, poppycock, rubbish, twaddle * seeVerb
- The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash , and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime.
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.