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Digestive vs Null - What's the difference?

digestive | null |

As nouns the difference between digestive and null

is that digestive is a substance that aids digestion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective digestive

is of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.

digestive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
  • That causes or promotes digestion.
  • * Herman Melville, Omoo
  • While the doctor and the natives were taking a digestive nap after dinner, I strolled forth to have a peep at the country which could produce so generous a meal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A substance that aids digestion.
  • (UK, Ireland) A digestive biscuit.
  • I bought a packet of chocolate digestives .

    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 ----