Neap vs Null - What's the difference?
neap | null |
Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
*
To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
* '>citation
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 neap and null
is that neap is the tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals or neap can be while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective neap
is designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.As a verb neap
is to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.neap
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian .Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Anagrams
* * *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.