Nerve vs Null - What's the difference?
nerve | null |
(zoology) A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
(nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
(botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood
Courage, boldness.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
Patience. (rfexample)
Stamina, endurance, fortitude.
* Milton
Audacity, gall.
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(in the plural) Agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotion.
(obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
To give courage; sometimes with "up".
To give strength
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 a verb nerve
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.nerve
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nerves can be seen through the skin.''
- ''Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves
- He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her, what a wimp!
- A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.
- He led me on to mightiest deeds, / Above the nerve of mortal arm.
- He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
- Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test.
- Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
; Audacity, gall : brashness, brazenness, big ballsHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bundle of nerves * get on somebody's nerves/get on one's nerves * nervation * nerveless * nervy * nerve cell * nerve center * nerve ending * nerve fiber * nerve gas * nerve impulse * nerve-racking * nerves of steel * nerve-wracking * nervi-, nervo- * touch a nerve * unnerved * war of nervesVerb
(nerv)- ''May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
- ''The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
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.