Whinged vs Null - What's the difference?
whinged | null |
(whing)
(whinge)
A high-pitched ringing sound
* 1855: Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
* 1578: Henry Lyte (tr.), A Niewe herball or historie of plantes
* 1791: letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West , vol. 4 (1896)
* 1869: James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect
*:: An’ shakin ther whings , thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.
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 a verb whinged
is (whing).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.whinged
English
Verb
(head)whing
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)- " Whing', ' whing ," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. . .
Etymology 2
See .Noun
(en noun)- The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
- we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded
- When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989null
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.