Clink vs Null - What's the difference?
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(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
* Tennyson
(humorous, dated) To rhyme.
(slang) Jail or prison, after (w) prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase (in the clink).
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
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 clink and null
is that clink is (onomatopoeia) the sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass or clink can be (slang) jail or prison, after (w) prison in southwark, london used in the phrase (in the clink) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb clink
is to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.clink
English
Etymology 1
Onomatpoeic, as metal against metal. Related to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Maybe from (etyl) , related to call. English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
- When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
Verb
(en verb)- The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
- the clinking latch
Etymology 2
From prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.Noun
(en noun)- If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* in the clinknull
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.