Bubble vs Null - What's the difference?
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A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
(economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts (eg the ).
(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
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* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath)
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
(archaic) To cheat, delude.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
* Addison
* Sterne
(intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England) To cry, weep.
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 bubble and null
is that bubble is a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb bubble
is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).bubble
English
(wikipedia bubble)Noun
(en noun)- bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
- Granny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble .
- For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.
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- Then a soldier / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.
- Are you having a bubble ?!
Synonyms
* (a laugh) giraffe, bubble bathVerb
(bubbl)- No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government
- She has bubbled him out of his youth.
- The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "bubble")Derived terms
* bubble over * bubble upnull
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.