Whimper vs Null - What's the difference?
whimper | null |
To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
* Latimer
To say something in a whimpering manner.
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 whimper and null
is that whimper is a low intermittent sob while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whimper
is to cry or sob softly and intermittently.whimper
English
Verb
(en verb)- The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.
- At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering ; and the cook, crying out "Bless God! it's Mr. Utterson," ran forward as if to take him in her arms.
- Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him?
- "Master, please don't punish me!" he whimpered .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* whimperativenull
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.