Slim vs Null - What's the difference?
slim | null |
Slender, thin.
# (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
# (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
# (of an object) Long and narrow.
# (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
(of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
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, date=January 15
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(South Africa) Sly, crafty.
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
(East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
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(slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
To lose weight in order to achieve slimness
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 slim and null
is that slim is slime, mucus while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.slim
English
Adjective
(slimmer)- Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
- I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
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Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- I only smoke slims .
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Alternative forms
* (AIDS) SlimVerb
Anagrams
* * ----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.