Windy vs Null - What's the difference?
windy | null |
Accompanied by wind.
Unsheltered and open to the wind.
Empty and lacking substance.
Long-winded; orally verbose.
Flatulent.
(slang) Nervous, frightened.
* 1995 , (Pat Barker), The Ghost Road'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 848:
(colloquial) fart
(of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
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 windy and null
is that windy is (colloquial) fart while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective windy
is accompanied by wind or windy can be (of a path etc) having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.windy
English
Etymology 1
From (wind) (weather condition) + (-y).Adjective
(er)- It was a long and windy night.
- They made love in a windy bus shelter.
- They made windy promises they would not keep.
- The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy .
- The thing is he's not windy, he's a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (accompanied by wind) calm, windlessNoun
(windies)Etymology 2
From + (-y).Adjective
(er)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.