Hive vs Null - What's the difference?
hive | null |
A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
* Tennyson
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
* 2006 , Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP (page 352)
* 2011 , Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0
(entomology) To enter or possess a hive.
To form a hive-like entity.
To collect into a hive.
To store in a hive or similarly.
* Byron
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
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 hive and null
is that hive is (label) winter while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hive
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
- a wretched hive of scum and villainy
- the hive of Roman liars
- Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives
- For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
Derived terms
* beehive * hivemind * mother-hive * superhive * hive fiveSee also
* apiaryVerb
(hiv)- to hive a swarm of bees
- Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
- (Alexander Pope)
Derived terms
* hive off English collective nounsnull
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.