Pops vs Null - What's the difference?
pops | null |
(informal, usually, as a form of address) Father, dad.
(informal, usually, as a form of address) By extension, another man old enough to be the speaker's father.
(the sound and related meanings)
(pop)
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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 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)- Hey, pops , I'm home.
Usage notes
Unless the person addressed this way is very close, this can be very disrespectful and belittling.Etymology 2
onomatopoeiaNoun
(head)Verb
(head)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.