Dogwhip vs Null - What's the difference?
dogwhip | null |
A whip intended for use on dogs.
* 1862 , Philip Gilbert Hamerton, A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art
* 1950 , Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy
(rare) To beat with a dogwhip. 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 dogwhip and null
is that dogwhip is a whip intended for use on dogs while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb dogwhip
is (rare) to beat with a dogwhip.dogwhip
English
Noun
(en noun)- Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket...
- On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip .
Verb
(dogwhipp)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.