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kim | null |

As nouns the difference between kim and null

is that kim is pincers, clamp while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

kim

English

Alternative forms

* Gim (Korean surname )

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
  • * 1901 , Chapter 1
  • The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
  • used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
  • * 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
  • Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
  • * 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
  • It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .
  • ), the most common Korean surname.
  • 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 ----