Hap vs Null - What's the difference?
hap | null |
That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* Spenser
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1851 , :
(literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
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(literary) To happen to.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
(dialect) To wrap or clothe.
* Dr. J. Brown
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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 hap and null
is that hap is pah while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hap, . The verb is from (etyl) happen, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
- HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps :
- Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- whether art it was or heedless hap
- Cursed be good haps', and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on ' haps .
- He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap ; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
Derived terms
* hapful * haphazard * hapless * haply * happen * happenstance * happy * hapsome * mayhap * mishap * perhapsSee also
* what's the hapsVerb
(happ)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(happ)- The surgeon happed her up carefully.
Anagrams
* ----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.