Whoop vs Null - What's the difference?
whoop | null |
An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
A bump on a racetrack.
* 2006 , Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know (page 104)
* 2009 , Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages (page 184)
A bird, the hoopoe.
To make a whoop.
* (William Wordsworth)
* W. Browne
To shout, to yell.
* , chapter=7
, title= To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
* (William Shakespeare)
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 whoop and null
is that whoop is an exclamation, a cry, usually of joy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb whoop
is to make a whoop or whoop can be (informal) to beat, to strike.whoop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) whopen, whowpen, howpen, , see (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad
- The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
Verb
(en verb)- each whooping with a merry shout
- When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* whoop it upEtymology 2
Corruption of whip .Alternative forms
* whupDerived terms
* whoop someone's ass * open a can of whoop assnull
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.