Fizzle vs Null - What's the difference?
fizzle | null |
To sputter or hiss.
* Ben Jonson
(figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
A spluttering or hissing sound.
Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
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 fizzle and null
is that fizzle is a spluttering or hissing sound while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb fizzle
is to sputter or hiss.fizzle
English
Verb
(fizzl)- ''The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
- It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling .
- The entire project fizzled after the founder retired.
Derived terms
* fizzlerNoun
(en noun)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.