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Mewl vs Null - What's the difference?

mewl | null |

As nouns the difference between mewl and null

is that mewl is a soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb mewl

is to cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.

mewl

English

Verb

  • To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
  • * 1599 , , As You Like It
  • And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, ...
  • * 1844 , , Martin Chuzzlewit
  • You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling , white-faced cat!
  • * 2007 , Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley , page 11,
  • My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling .
  • * 1995 , , Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa (translators), The Murmuring Coast , page 89,
  • There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.
  • * 2009 , Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys , page 61,
  • I let out another moaning mewl , biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
  • * 2010 , Chris Wooding, Malice , page 15,
  • The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----