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Muck vs Null - What's the difference?

muck | null |

As nouns the difference between muck and null

is that muck is slimy mud while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb muck

is to shovel muck.

muck

English

Noun

(-)
  • Slimy mud.
  • The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
    I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
  • Soft or slimy manure.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
  • What's that green muck on the floor?
  • Anything filthy or vile.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, derogatory) money
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • the fatal muck we quarrelled for

    Derived terms

    * mucky * where there's muck there's brass

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shovel muck.
  • We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
  • To manure with muck.
  • To do a dirty job.
  • (poker, colloquial) To pass (gloss, give one's cards back to the dealer).
  • Derived terms

    * muck about * muck around * muck in * muck out * muck up * mucker * muckraker * mucky * muck spreader * common as muck * where there's muck there's brass ----

    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 ----