Smooch vs Null - What's the difference?
smooch | null |
(informal) A kiss.
(informal) To kiss.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
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 smooch and null
is that smooch is (informal) a kiss while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb smooch
is (informal) to kiss or smooch can be .smooch
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from a dialectal variation of smack. Compare also (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* smoochies * smoochiness * smoochyVerb
(es)- They smooched in the doorway.
Derived terms
* smoocherEtymology 2
Verb
(es)- Then she said that the paper stained everything it touched, that she had found yellow smooches on all my clothes and John's, and she wished we would be more careful!
null
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.