Funk vs Null - What's the difference?
funk | null |
(countable) mental depression
(uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly
* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
(rft-sense) (uncountable) Music that combines traditional forms of black music (as blues, gospel, or soul) and is characterized by a strong backbeat.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
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 funk and null
is that funk is radio while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.funk
English
(wikipedia funk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) funke, . More at (l).Etymology 2
1743, Scottish and Northern English dialectal word, originally a verb meaning "to panic, fail due to panic". Perhaps from or cognate with obsolete (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
- [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk
Etymology 3
1620, from (etyl) dialectal (Norman) funquer, . More at (l).Noun
Derived terms
* electrofunk * funkyVerb
(en verb)- (King)
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.