Thumping vs Null - What's the difference?
thumping | null |
A dull, heavy sound.
* 1941 , Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died
A beating.
* 1824 , William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers
(sports) A heavy defeat.
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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 thumping and null
is that thumping is a dull, heavy sound while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective thumping
is (informal) exceptional in some degree.As a verb thumping
is .thumping
English
Noun
- There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
- He received a thumping from the school bully.
- And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
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Synonyms
* (heavy defeat) thrashingVerb
(head)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.