Phone vs Null - What's the difference?
phone | null |
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances.
To call (someone) on the telephone.
(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
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 a verb phone
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.phone
English
(wikipedia phone)Etymology 1
Shortening of (telephone).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cell phone * clamshell phone * flip phone * mobile phone * phone sex * phone tag * smartphoneSee also
*Verb
(phon)Synonyms
* call, ring, telephoneDerived terms
* phone it in * phone upEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)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.