Squishy vs Null - What's the difference?
squishy | null |
(of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially'', soft and wet, ''as mud.
* 2009 , Jamie Carie, Wind Dancer , B&H Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-8054-4534-3,
(figuratively, of a person)
(informal) Subjective or vague.
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 squishy
is (of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially'', soft and wet, ''as mud.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.squishy
English
Adjective
(en-adj)page 144:
- Finished with head and hair, the women pulled her up the bank to wash her body, the soft squishy mud registering for the first time on the outer consciousness of Isabelle’s mind.
Derived terms
* squishinessnull
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.