Muckworm vs Null - What's the difference?
muckworm | null |
A larva living in mud or manure.
Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.
*{{quote-book, 1748, , The Castle of Indolence, chapter=Canto I
, passage=Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree.}}
*{{quote-book, 1840, , The Writings of Douglas Jerrold, chapter=The Money-Lender, page=279
, passage=We have painted one Money-Lender — not the mere sordid muckworm of a century ago, but the man-eater of the present day. }}
*{{quote-book, 1993, Marlene Suson, The Lily and the Hawk, page=158
, passage=Perhaps it is far too expensive for a notorious muckworm like you! I, however, am more generous. }}
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 muckworm and null
is that muckworm is a larva living in mud or manure while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.muckworm
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(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
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(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.