Quagmire vs Null - What's the difference?
quagmire | null |
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
(figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
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 quagmire and null
is that quagmire is a swampy, soggy area of ground while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.quagmire
English
(wikipedia quagmire)Noun
(en noun)- ''That quagmire regularly 'swallows' caught-up hikers' boots
- The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
- ''Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union
Synonyms
* bog, marsh (land), mire, quagReferences
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.