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Frizz vs Null - What's the difference?

frizz | null |

As nouns the difference between frizz and null

is that frizz is a mass of tightly curled or unruly hair while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb frizz

is (lb) of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.

frizz

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) frysen, from (etyl) friser, .

Verb

  • (lb) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
  • (lb) To curl; to make frizzy.
  • * (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
  • with her hair frizzed short up to her ears
  • * 1937 , (John Betjeman),
  • In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.
  • *
  • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed , waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
  • To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
  • To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fryse, from the verb. See above.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
  • 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 ----