Whiz vs Null - What's the difference?
whiz | null |
To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
To throw or spin rapidly.
(vulgar, slang) To urinate.
A whirring or hissing sound (as above).
(informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
An act of urination; a wiz.
(UK, slang, uncountable) amphetamine.
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 whiz and null
is that whiz is a whirring or hissing sound (as above) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whiz
is to make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.whiz
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Alternative forms
* whizzVerb
- We whizzed in the bushes.
Noun
(whizzes)- I have to take a whiz .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* whiz kidnull
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.