Loosen vs Null - What's the difference?
loosen | null |
To make loose.
* Francis Bacon
To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
* Dryden
To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
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 loosen
is to make loose.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.loosen
English
Verb
(en verb)- to loosen a knot
- After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.
- After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.
- It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.
- (Francis Bacon)
Antonyms
* tightenDerived terms
* loosen the apron strings * loosen the purse strings * loosenerSee also
* lose English ergative verbsnull
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.