Bruit vs Null - What's the difference?
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(label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.
* 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7
* 1607 , (William Shakespeare),
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(label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)
(US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
* 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,
* William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,
* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,
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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 bruit and null
is that bruit is brute, beast while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bruit
English
Noun
(-)- Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
- But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
Verb
(en verb)- There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.
- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder.
- Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.
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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.