Stifle vs Null - What's the difference?
stifle | null |
A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
(veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
To interrupt or cut off.
To repress, keep in or hold back.
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, title= * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport
, title= To smother or suffocate.
* (John Dryden)
* (Jonathan Swift)
To feel smothered etc.
To die of suffocation.
To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.
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 stifle and null
is that stifle is boots while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stifle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stifl)- I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Norwich 3-3 Blackburn, passage=In fact, there was no suggestion of that, although Wolves deployed men behind the ball to stifle the league leaders in a first-half that proved very frustrating for City.}}
- Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
- I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.
Synonyms
* (to die of suffocation) See also * (To repress or hold back) hinder, restrain, suppress, throttlenull
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.