Hacking vs Null - What's the difference?
hacking | null |
Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
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(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
(pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
(sports, chiefly, American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
(massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
(UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.)
(obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
(obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
(obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
(obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.
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 hacking and null
is that hacking is (computing) playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective hacking
is short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.As a verb hacking
is .hacking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A hacking''' cough. A '''hacking''' laugh. A '''hacking''' breath. A '''hacking cry.
- A more hacking and harrowing cough I have never heard.
- Anise will diminish the most hacking cough to where it is no longer irritating.
Usage notes
Most non-creative collocations are the phrases given as examples.Derived terms
* hacking cough * hackinglyNoun
(-)- From hacker'': ''"A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular." —
RFC 1392
Derived terms
* hacking coat, hacking jacket, hacking-seat * hacking runVerb
(head)Anagrams
*See also
*pirateReferences
* (Vol. IV, p. 2675–2676; supplement Vol. XI, p. 559) * “hacking” in Harrap's Shorter , 2006, p. 416 * “hacking” in Concise English Dictionary , Wordsworth, 2007, p.405* “
hacking” at Wordnik
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.