Wen vs Null - What's the difference?
wen | null |
A cyst on the skin.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) ,
* 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
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 wen and null
is that wen is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.wen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Walden:
- When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
- Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
- I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Anagrams
*Etymology 3
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.