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Blunder vs Null - What's the difference?

blunder | null |

As nouns the difference between blunder and null

is that blunder is a clumsy or embarrassing mistake while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb blunder

is to make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

blunder

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
  • Synonyms

    * (error) blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
  • to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
  • To move blindly or clumsily.
  • * Goldsmith
  • I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
  • * Dryden
  • blunders on, and staggers every pace
  • To cause to make a mistake.
  • * Ditton
  • To blunder an adversary.
  • To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
  • * Stillingfleet
  • He blunders and confounds all these together.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----