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Grouch vs Null - What's the difference?

grouch | null |

As nouns the difference between grouch and null

is that grouch is a complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb grouch

is to be grumpy or irritable; to complain.

grouch

English

Noun

(grouches)
  • A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
  • *1919 , , Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20
  • But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch .
  • One who is grumpy or irritable.
  • *I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch .
  • Verb

  • To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
  • He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    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 ----