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Bleep vs Null - What's the difference?

bleep | null |

As nouns the difference between bleep and null

is that bleep is a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb bleep

is to emit one or more bleeps.

bleep

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  • (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
  • What the bleep are you doing?
  • (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
  • * 2005 , "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.gothic )
  • See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep . I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
  • * 2005 , "oldgoth", Theaving(SIC) Goths'' (on newsgroup ''uk.people.gothic )
  • A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To emit one or more bleeps.
  • To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
  • Derived terms

    * bleeper * bleep out * bleepy

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----