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Pops vs Null - What's the difference?

pops | null |

As nouns the difference between pops and null

is that pops is father, dad while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As verbs the difference between pops and null

is that pops is third-person singular of pop while null is to nullify; to annul.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

pops

English

Etymology 1

From papa 'dad'

Noun

(head)
  • (informal, usually, as a form of address) Father, dad.
  • Hey, pops , I'm home.
  • (informal, usually, as a form of address) By extension, another man old enough to be the speaker's father.
  • Usage notes
    Unless the person addressed this way is very close, this can be very disrespectful and belittling.

    Etymology 2

    onomatopoeia

    Noun

    (head)
  • (the sound and related meanings)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (pop)
  • ----

    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 ----