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Wow vs Null - What's the difference?

wow | null |

As nouns the difference between wow and null

is that wow is (informal) an exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an interjection wow

is an indication of excitement or surprise.

As a verb wow

is (informal) to amaze or awe.

wow

English

(wikipedia wow)

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An indication of excitement or surprise.
  • * 1513 , (Gavin Douglas), Virgil Æneid (translation) vi. Prol. 19 :
  • Out on thir wanderand spiritis, wow! thow cryis.
  • An expression of amazement or awe.
  • Wow! How do they do that?
  • Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
  • Wow... I can't believe you would do such a thing.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * wowzer, wowser * wowsers * wowzah

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To amaze or awe.
  • He really wowed the audience.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact.
  • He did? That's a wow !
  • A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----