Hug vs Null - What's the difference?
hug | null |
(obsolete) To crouch; huddle as with cold.
To cling closely together.
To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
To stay close to (the shore etc.)
* , chapter=8
, title= (figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
* Glanvill
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 hug and null
is that hug is younger sister while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hug
English
(wikipedia hug)Verb
(hugg)- (Palsgrave)
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
- We hug deformities if they bear our names.
Synonyms
* accoll (obsolete) * coll * embraceSee also
* cuddle * huggle * kiss * snuggle * squeezeDerived terms
* body-hugging ----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.