Flit vs Null - What's the difference?
flit | null |
A fluttering or darting movement.
(physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
(slang) A homosexual.
To move about rapidly and nimbly.
* Tennyson
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To move quickly from one location to another.
* Hooker
(physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
* 1855 , , page 199 (ISBN 0679405518)
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
* Dryden
(poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
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 flit and null
is that flit is a fluttering or darting movement while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb flit
is to move about rapidly and nimbly.As an adjective flit
is (poetic|obsolete) fast, nimble.flit
English
Noun
(en noun)- My computer just had a flit .
Verb
- A shadow flits before me.
- There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.
- It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
- My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
- (Wright)
- (Jamieson)
- After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting , and change his residence.
- the free soul to flitting air resigned
Adjective
(en adjective)- And in his hand two darts exceeding flit , / And deadly sharpe he held [...].
Anagrams
* ----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.