Rancid vs Null - What's the difference?
rancid | null |
Being rank in taste or smell.
offensive
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 an adjective rancid
is being rank in taste or smell.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rancid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
- His remarks were rancid ; everyone got up and left.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "rancid" often gets applied: food, butter, meat, milk, fat, oil, smell, odor, taste.External links
* * *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.