Prog vs Null - What's the difference?
prog | null |
Abbreviation of progressive.
* 2003 , Frank Moriarty, Seventies Rock: The Decade of Creative Chaos
(label) Progressive rock
(computing, informal) A program.
* 2001 , "n.one", transfer progs from comp to comp'' (on newsgroup ''24hoursupport.helpdesk )
* 2001', "Yoda", ''How do I get '''progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?'' (on newsgroup ''linux.redhat )
* 2003 , "Leo Edwards", Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups?'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.win98.apps )
proctor
(slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
* (Robert Browning)
(slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
(obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.
* Fuller
* Burke
(obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.
(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.
(Webster 1913)
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 prog and null
is that prog is threshold while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.prog
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviations.Adjective
(-)- Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves ...
Noun
(en noun)- I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.
Etymology 2
Noun
- (Jonathan Swift)
- So long as he picked from the filth his prog .
Verb
(progg)- a perfect artist in progging for money
- I have been endeavouring to prog for you.
- (Johnson)
Anagrams
* (l) English abbreviations ----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.