Belch vs Null - What's the difference?
belch | null |
To expel gas loudly from the stomach through the mouth.
* My father used to belch after having a fine meal.
To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
* Jonathan Swift
* Milton
The sound one makes when belching.
(obsolete) malt liquor
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 belch and null
is that belch is belgian (inhabitant of belgium) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.belch
English
Verb
(es)- Yes, we have seen the wrecked cars and the factories belching smoke and the blur of speedy automobiles crowding highways.
- I belched a hurricane of wind.
- Within the gates that now / Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame.
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* burpNoun
(es)- (Dennis)
Usage notes
A belch is often considered to be louder than a burp.Synonyms
* burpAnagrams
*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.