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Misfall vs Null - What's the difference?

misfall | null |

As nouns the difference between misfall and null

is that misfall is a mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb misfall

is to fall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.

misfall

English

Verb

  • To fall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
  • *1889 , Henry Morley, Early prose romances :
  • [...] let us abide together that, one with the counsel and that other with the deed, then may there nothing misfall to usward.
  • *2009 , Eric B. Hare, Skyscrapers :
  • However, the principal and his students worked hard, and they soon had the buildings in shape for use and the farm doing as well as possible. Then a terrible misfortune misfell one of the neighbors who was most bitter in his tirades.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.
  • *1875 , Julian Hawthorne, Saxon studies :
  • But alas! an unlooked- for misfall has occurred."

    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 ----