Cumbrous vs Null - What's the difference?
cumbrous | null |
Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , ch. 1
(obsolete) Giving trouble; vexatious.
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 an adjective cumbrous
is unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cumbrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. — Swift.
- That cumbrous and unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. — De Quincey.
- In the course of thousands of years, this cumbrous system developed into alphabetic writing.
- A cloud of cumbrous gnats. — Spenser.
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.