Insufflate vs Null - What's the difference?
insufflate | null |
To breathe or blow into or on.
(medicine) To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
(medicine) To inhale (a powder etc.).
* 2001': Cocaine is usually taken by '''insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)
(ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
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 verb insufflate
is to breathe or blow into or on.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.insufflate
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Verb
(insufflat)Synonyms
* (to inhale) snortnull
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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.