Hiccup vs Null - What's the difference?
hiccup | null |
A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
(by extension) Any spasm or sudden change.
* 2010 , Oli Smith, Nuclear Time (page 197)
A minor setback.
To have the hiccups.
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 hiccup and null
is that hiccup is a spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb hiccup
is to have the hiccups.hiccup
English
(wikipedia hiccup)Alternative forms
* hickup * hiccough (old-fashioned)Noun
(en noun)- There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter.
- Albert didn't notice the switch, the subliminal flash and hiccup in time as the man he had been talking to only seconds before was catapulted backwards half an hour.
- There's been a slight hiccup in the processing of this quarter's results
Hypernyms
* (spasm of the diaphragm) myoclonusSee also
* hiccupsVerb
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.