Whack vs Null - What's the difference?
whack | null |
A blow, impact or slap.
A share or portion.
* 1951 , , Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922 ,
An attempt.
To hit, slap or strike.
* G. W. Cable
(slang) To kill, bump off.
To share or parcel out.
(label) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
* 2012 , Ryan Pyette,
To surpass; to better.
* 2012 , Steve Cullen,
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 whack and null
is that whack is a blow, impact or slap while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whack
is to hit, slap or strike.whack
English
Noun
(en noun)- For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib. , tea, and plenty of good bread.
Verb
(en verb)- Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
- The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
Total Flyfisher:
- Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* out of whack * whack off * whack the illy * whacky English onomatopoeiasnull
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.