Jive vs Null - What's the difference?
jive | null |
(transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
(colloquial) To dance.
A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
Swing, a style of jazz music.
A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
(US, colloquial) Nonsense; transparently deceptive talk.
African American Vernacular English.
(US)
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 jive and null
is that jive is a dance style popular in the 1940–50s while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb jive
is (transitive|intransitive|us|colloquial) to deceive; to be deceptive or jive can be (us).jive
English
Etymology 1
Unknown. Slang attested in African-American and rural-American culture. Frequently used to imply lying, verbal deception or trickery. Possible historical antecedent: see gyveVerb
(jiv)- Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!
- You can dance, you can jive , having the time of your life; ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the dancing queen! (")
Noun
(en noun)- Don’t give me that jive . I know where you were last night.
See also
* bullshitEtymology 2
Verb
(jiv)Usage notes
"Jive" and "jibe" have been used interchangeably in the U.S. to indicate the concept "to agree or accord." While one recent dictionary accepts this usage of "jive," most sources consider it to be in error. See also jive turkey for related expression. African American Vernacular English English terms with unknown etymologiesnull
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.