Tune vs Null - What's the difference?
tune | null |
A melody.
A song, or short musical composition.
(informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
(UK, slang) A very good song.
(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
* John Locke
To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
* Dryden
To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions optimally.
To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
* Milton
To sing with melody or harmony.
* Milton
(South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
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 tune and null
is that tune is a melody while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb tune
is to modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.tune
English
(wikipedia tune)Noun
(en noun)- Your engine needs a good tune .
- Your engine is now in tune .
- This piano is not in tune .
- You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune !
- the tune of your voices
- A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune , as when he is dragged unwillingly to [his task].
Derived terms
* change one's tune * in tune * out of tune * to the tune of * carry a tuneVerb
(tun)- to tune a piano or a violin
- Tune your harps.
- (Shakespeare)
- For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
- Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
- Are you tuning me?
Derived terms
* fine-tune * stay tuned * tune in * * tuner * tune out * tune upExternal links
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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.