Quid vs Null - What's the difference?
quid | null |
The inherent nature of something.
(US, historical) A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid ).
(historical) A sovereign or guinea.
(British, colloquial) Pound sterling.
(Australia, colloquial) pound
(Ireland, colloquial) pound, punt
(Ireland, colloquial) euro
(United States, colloquial) dollar
To chew tobacco
* 1902 , John Masefield,
(of a horse) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing
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 quid and null
is that quid is the inherent nature of something or quid can be (historical) a sovereign or guinea or quid can be a piece of chewing tobacco while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb quid
is to chew tobacco.quid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Likely derives from the phrase quid pro quo meaning "this for that", referring to the exchange of goods/services for money.Noun
(en-noun)- Five quid for a sandwich? You're having a laugh!
Synonyms
* (pound sterling) ** pound, pound sterling ** (slang) nicker, sovDerived terms
* quids inEtymology 3
Variant of (cud).Verb
(quidd)- Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played
See also
* bob * buck * dime * nickel * quarter * Quidditch * trey * zac ----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.