Gib vs Null - What's the difference?
gib | null |
A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
A castrated male cat or ferret.
A male cat; a tomcat.
To fasten in place with a gib.
(lb) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
(lb) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
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 gib and null
is that gib is si abbreviation for gibibyte or gibibytes while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gib
English
Etymology 1
(18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from (m), the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox'', in the ''Romaunt of the Rose , etc.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Etymology 2
Shortened from giblet.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Anagrams
* (l), (l) * (l) ----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.