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Relapse vs Null - What's the difference?

relapse | null |

As nouns the difference between relapse and null

is that relapse is the act or situation of relapsing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb relapse

is to fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.

relapse

English

Verb

(relaps)
  • To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (intransitive, medicine, of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated.
  • To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
  • (Dryden)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or situation of relapsing.
  • Alas! from what high hope to what relapse / Unlooked for are we fallen! — Milton.
  • (medicine) An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
  • (obsolete) One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
  • Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----