Miss vs Null - What's the difference?
miss | null |
(ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
To fail to achieve or attain.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
*
To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
To fail to attend.
To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
(sports) To fail to score (a goal).
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
, title= (obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
A failure to hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish.
An act of avoidance.
A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
* Cawthorn
A kept woman; a mistress.
(card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
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 miss and null
is that miss is form of address for an unmarried woman while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.miss
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) missen, from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- I missed the target.
- I tried to kick the ball, but missed .
- Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss .
- Flying bullets now, / To execute his rage, appear too slow; / They miss , or sweep but common souls away.
- to miss an opportunity
- When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.
- I miss you! Come home soon!
- What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss .
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
- miss the joke
- Joe missed the meeting this morning.
- I missed the plane!
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- Amongst the angels, a whole legion / Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; / What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss ?
- What here shall miss , our toil shall strive to mend.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeAntonyms
* (to fail to hit) hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with * (to feel the absence of) have, featureDerived terms
* hit-and-miss * miss a trick * miss the mark * miss the point * miss the boat * miss fire, misfire * miss out * near missNoun
(es)- I think I’ll give the meeting a miss .
Etymology 2
From (mistress).Noun
(wikipedia miss)- You may sit here, miss .
- You may sit here, Miss Jones.
- Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, / Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses .
- (Evelyn)
null
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.