Tighten vs Null - What's the difference?
tighten | null |
To make tighter.
* Fawkes
To become tighter.
(economics) To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
(economics) To raise short-term interest rates.
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 a verb tighten
is to make tighter.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tighten
English
Verb
(en verb)- Please tighten that screw a quarter-turn.
- Just where I please, with tightened rein / I'll urge thee round the dusty plain.
- That joint is tightening as the wood dries.
- If the government doesn't tighten the money supply, inflation is certain to be harsh.
- The Fed is expected to tighten by a quarter-point.
Antonyms
* (make tighter) loosenDerived terms
* retighten * tighten one's belt * tighten the purse strings * tightenerDistinguish from
* titan, Titannull
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.