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Twinge vs Null - What's the difference?

twinge | null |

As nouns the difference between twinge and null

is that twinge is a pinch; a tweak; a twitch while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb twinge

is to pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

twinge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
  • A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
  • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}

    Verb

    (twing)
  • To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
  • * Hudibras
  • When a man is past his sense, / There's no way to reduce him thence, / But twinging him by the ears or nose, / Or laying on of heavy blows.
  • To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  • * L'Estrange
  • The gnat twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him.
  • To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
  • 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 ----