Sprig vs Null - What's the difference?
sprig | null |
A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
* Sir Walter Scott
A brad, or nail without a head.
A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
A house sparrow.
To decorate with sprigs
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 sprig and null
is that sprig is a small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sprig
is to decorate with sprigs.sprig
English
Noun
(en noun)- a sprig of laurel or of parsley
- a sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago
Verb
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.
