Whig vs Null - What's the difference?
whig | null |
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
buttermilk
Urge forward; drive briskly.
Jog along; move or work briskly.
English terms with homophones
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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 whig and null
is that whig is (uk|politics) a member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in britain that was opposed to the tories, and eventually became the liberal party while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.whig
English
Etymology 1
Probably related to (whey)Noun
(wikipedia whig) (en noun)Etymology 2
Compare frig', ' jigVerb
(whigg)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.