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Nudge vs Null - What's the difference?

nudge | null |

As nouns the difference between nudge and null

is that nudge is a gentle push while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb nudge

is to push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.

nudge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A gentle push.
  • (Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
  • (fruit machines) The rotation by one step of a reel of the player's choice.
  • Since the machine was showing two lemons and a cherry, I decided to try a nudge .

    Verb

    (nudg)
  • To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges ” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • To near or come close to something.
  • See also

    * nudge nudge wink wink

    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 ----