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Droop vs Null - What's the difference?

droop | null |

As nouns the difference between droop and null

is that droop is something which is limp or sagging; while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb droop

is (lb) to sink or hang downward; to sag.

droop

English

(wikipedia droop)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
  • *
  • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • * (Sylvester Stallone) (1946-)
  • I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop , the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
  • (lb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
  • (lb) To lose all enthusiasm or happiness.
  • * (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
  • I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage.
  • (lb) To allow to droop or sink.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • Like to a withered vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground.
  • To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • when day drooped

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • something which is limp or sagging;
  • a condition or posture of drooping
  • He walked with a discouraged droop .

    Derived terms

    * brewer's droop ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----