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Shakes vs Null - What's the difference?

shakes | null |

As nouns the difference between shakes and null

is that shakes is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb shakes

is (shake).

shakes

English

Noun

(head)
  • (en-plural noun)
  • (plurale tantum) A pattern of behavior including twitches, tics and spasms typical of withdrawal from addiction; usually following the .
  • [Recovering video game addicts] also have sleep disorders, the shakes and numbness in their hands. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/china_net_addicts/]
    When researchers either stopped the diet or administered an opioid blocker, the rats showed signs common to drug withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering and the shakes . [http://apu.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_sugarAddiction]

    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 ----