Dirt vs Null - What's the difference?
dirt | null |
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
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 dirt and null
is that dirt is animal while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dirt
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
Derived terms
* dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirtnull
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.