Thumb vs Null - What's the difference?
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The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
(computing) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
(colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
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To touch or cover with the thumb.
To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
(travel) To hitchhike
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
* Macaulay
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 thumb and null
is that thumb is the short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb thumb
is to touch or cover with the thumb.thumb
English
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (digit) pollex, digit I, first digit (anatomy) ; thumby (colloquial)Hypernyms
* (digit) digit, fingerHyponyms
* (digit) opposable thumbDerived terms
(terms derived from the noun) * all fingers and thumbs * all thumbs * brown thumb * green thumb * opposable thumb * rule of thumb * stick out like a sore thumb * thumb a lift * thumb a ride * thumbboard * thumbnail * thumbpad * thumbprint * thumb-sketch or thumb sketch * thumbstick * thumb wrestle * thumbs up * under one's thumb * under the thumbVerb
(en verb)- to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon
- I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
- So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.
- He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs.
Synonyms
* (to turn pages) browse, leaf, page, peruseDerived terms
(terms derived from the verb) * thumb one's nose * thumb a lift * thumb a ride * well-thumbednull
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.