Thunder vs Null - What's the difference?
thunder | null |
The sound caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.
A sound resembling thunder; especially, one produced by a jet airplane in flight.
A deep, rumbling noise.
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
* Prescott
(obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) The spotlight.
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
(label) To make a noise like thunder.
(label) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
(label) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
To produce something with incredible power
* {{quote-news
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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 thunder and null
is that thunder is hoof while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.thunder
English
Noun
(wikipedia thunder)- Thunder ''is preceded by lightning.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
Usage notes
* roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder.Derived terms
* thunder and lightning * thunderation * thunderbird * thunderbolt * thunderboomer * thunderbox * thunderclap * thundercloud * thunderhead * thunderous * thundersquall * thunderstorm * thunder thighsSee also
* lightningVerb
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Derived terms
* thunderernull
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.