Heads vs Null - What's the difference?
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(nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar
abbreviation for headphones.
(Irish, legal) Draft scheme of a before it is formally introduced to a parliament
* 2000s "
* 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "
(head)
(slang) High-grade marijuana.
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 heads and null
is that heads is or heads can be (slang) high-grade marijuana while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an interjection heads
is a shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.As a verb heads
is (head).heads
English
Etymology 1
Plural of head.Synonyms
* (warning) heads up, fore, timberNoun
(head) (p)- Heads , I win.
- Pass me the heads , I wanna listen.
How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast:
- Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.
Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012:
- The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.
Antonyms
* (side of coin ): tailsDerived terms
* heads of agreementEtymology 2
Verb
(head)Etymology 3
head (from the notion that it gives a head high) (possibly either genitive or plural).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l)Coordinate terms
* (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l)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.