Nuke vs Null - What's the difference?
nuke | null |
Nuclear weapon.
Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
(US, slang) A microwave oven
Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke
To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
(colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
(colloquial) To completely destroy.
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 nuke and null
is that nuke is mother while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.nuke
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
- "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
Verb
(nuk)- First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
- I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
- To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )
Derived terms
* nukerReferences
Anagrams
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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.