Frost vs Null - What's the difference?
frost | null |
A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 47.
The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
(figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
To get covered with frost .
To coat something (e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
To anger or annoy.
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 a proper noun frost
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.frost
English
(wikipedia frost)Noun
- It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;
- It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.
Derived terms
* black frost * degree of frost * frostbite * frostbitten * frostbound * frost-tender * frosty * hoar frost, hoarfrost * Jack Frost * permafrost * uremic frostVerb
(en verb)- I think the boss's decision frosted him, a bit.
Derived terms
* frostingAnagrams
* ----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.