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vomit | null |

As nouns the difference between vomit and null

is that vomit is vomit while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

vomit

English

(wikipedia vomit)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
  • * Bible, Jonah ii. 10
  • The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
  • To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
  • * '>citation
  • After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
  • * Milton
  • Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
  • * Charlotte Brontë
  • a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery

    Derived terms

    * vomitable

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
  • The act of regurgitating.
  • (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He gives your Hollander a vomit .

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    See also

    * emetic ----

    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 ----