Whiff vs Null - What's the difference?
whiff | null |
A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
An odour carried briefly through the air
* (rfdate)
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
A short inhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
* Longfellow
(figurative) a slight sign of something; a glimpse
* 2012 , Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632366]
(baseball) A strike (from the batter’s perspective)
The megrim, a fish .
To waft.
To sniff.
(baseball) To strike out.
(slang) to attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
* Ben Jonson
(colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.
* 2002: Jim Rozen, Way oil in
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 whiff and null
is that whiff is a waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whiff
is to waft.As an adjective whiff
is (colloquial) having a strong or unpleasant odor.whiff
English
Noun
(en noun)- everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them.
- A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor
- The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
- This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.
Synonyms
* puff * sniff * waftVerb
(en verb)- Old Empedocles, who, when he leaped into Etna, having a dry, sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whiffed him up into the moon.
Adjective
(en adjective)rec.crafts.metalworking
- Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff . If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.
Derived terms
* whifflenull
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.