Bloat vs Null - What's the difference?
bloat | null |
to cause to become distended
to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
to become distended; to swell up
to fill with vanity or conceit
to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking
distention of the abdomen from death
(figurative) wasteful use of space
(derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
(obsolete) bloated
:{{quote-book, author=(William Shakespeare)
, year=1602
, title=The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
, chapter=Act 3, Scene 4. The Queen's Closet.
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 bloat and null
is that bloat is distention of the abdomen from death while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb bloat
is to cause to become distended.As an adjective bloat
is (obsolete) bloated.bloat
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Arbuthnot)
- (Dryden)
- bloated herring
Noun
(en noun)- Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat .
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed}}
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.