Hush vs Null - What's the difference?
hush | null |
to become quiet
to make quiet
To appease; to allay; to soothe.
* Otway
* Tennyson
A silence, especially after some noise
* Byron
A mining method using water
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 hush and null
is that hush is a silence, especially after some noise while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb hush
is to become quiet.hush
English
Verb
(es)- Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
- And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
Noun
(-)- It is the hush of night.
- (Byron)
Derived terms
* hush money * hush puppy * hush up * hushaby * husher * hushful * hush-hire * hush-hush * hush-shop English ergative verbs ----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.