Hitch vs Null - What's the difference?
hitch | null |
A sudden pull.
Any of various knots]] used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope Knots and Splices by Cyrus L Day, Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001. See [[w:List of hitch knots, List of hitch knots in Wikipedia .
A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
(informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
A period of time. Most often refers to time spent in the military.
:: Stephen J. Hedges & Mike Dorning, Chicago Tribune; Orlando Sentinel; Jun 3, 2004; pg. A.1;
To pull with a jerk.
To attach, tie or fasten.
*, chapter=8
, title= (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched .
(informal) contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
* South
To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
* (Alexander Pope)
* Fuller
(UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
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 a proper noun hitch
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hitch
English
Noun
(es)- His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
- The banquet went off without a hitch . (Meaning the banquet went smoothly.)
- The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch ?
- She served two hitches in Vietnam.
- U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH ; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED
Synonyms
* catchDerived terms
* unhitch * unhitchedVerb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}
- atomswhich at length hitched together
- Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
- To ease themselves by hitching into another place.
- (Halliwell)
References
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.