Oomph vs Null - What's the difference?
oomph | null |
(informal, uncountable) Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
* 1982 , , Life, the Universe and Everything , chapter 30
(informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.
* 1974 , , Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , chapter 28
(countable) A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
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 oomph and null
is that oomph is (informal|uncountable) strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.oomph
English
Noun
- Use a mild cleanser, but pick something with enough oomph to do the job.
- "Yes, well they're finding it difficult, sir. They are afflicted with a certain lassitude. They're just finding it hard to get behind the job. They lack oomph ."
- 'Come to think of it, the girl looked a bit like Ann,' Jerry reflected. 'Foxy, know what I mean? Garbo eyes, lots of oomph .'
Synonyms
* wellynull
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.