Louse vs Null - What's the difference?
louse | null |
A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera .
(colloquial, dated, not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.
To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.
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 louse and null
is that louse is a small parasitic wingless insect of the order phthiraptera while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb louse
is to remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.louse
English
(wikipedia louse)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (insect) (North America) cootie * (contemptible person) maggot, wormDerived terms
* body louse * booklouse * crab louse * head louse * louser * lousy * pubic louse * sea louse * three skips of a louseVerb
(lous)Synonyms
* delousenull
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.