Dislocated vs Null - What's the difference?
dislocated | null |
(dislocate)
to put something out of its usual place
(medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
* {{quote-book
, year= a1420
, year_published= 1894
, author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by= (Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, original=
, chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, section=
, isbn= 1163911380
, edition=
, publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co
, location= London
, editor= Robert von Fleischhacker
, volume=
, page= 63
, passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate , til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
}}
* Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.
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 a verb dislocated
is (dislocate).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dislocated
English
Verb
(head)dislocate
English
Verb
Synonyms
* displacenull
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.