Tiptoe vs Null - What's the difference?
tiptoe | null |
Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Cowper
To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
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, title= 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 tiptoe and null
is that tiptoe is the tips of one's toes collectively while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective tiptoe
is standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.As a verb tiptoe
is to walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.tiptoe
English
(wikipedia tiptoe)Alternative forms
* tip-toe * tippytoe, tippy-toeDerived terms
* on tiptoeAdjective
(-)- Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory
- with tiptoe step
Verb
(d)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
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.
