Drowsy vs Null - What's the difference?
drowsy | null |
Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
Dull; stupid.
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 drowsy
is inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.drowsy
English
Adjective
(er)- I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up.
- It was a warm, drowsy summer afternoon.
Derived terms
* drowsinessnull
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.