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Tump vs Null - What's the difference?

tump | null |

As nouns the difference between tump and null

is that tump is (british|rare) a mound or hillock or tump can be (uncommon) a tumpline while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb tump

is to form a mass of earth or a hillock about or tump can be (southern us) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump").

tump

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) twmp, twm.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
  • The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
    (Ainsworth)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a mass of earth or a hillock about.
  • to tump teasel

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
  • Don't tump that bucket over!
  • (Southern US) To fall over.
  • (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
  • (Bartlett)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl); see tumpline for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncommon) A tumpline.
  • null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----