Zing vs Null - What's the difference?
zing | null |
A short high-pitched humming sound, eg that made by a bullet or vibrating string.
* {{quote-book
, date = 1998-03-15
, author = Edward E. Leslie
, title = Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
, publisher = Mariner Books
, isbn = 9780395911501
, ol = 7468582M
, page = 387
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=X0_S5AtHuY0C&pg=PA387&dq=zing
, passage = I heard a zing close to my head and looked up again. Five or six men were lined up on the deck above me with rifles shooting at the shark.
}}
Zest or vitality.
* {{quote-news
, date = 2006-05-25
, author = Melinda Houston
, newspaper =
, title = European Bier Cafe - Bar Reviews
, url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/bar-reviews/european-bier-cafe/2006/05/25/1148519757307.html
, passage = To accompany a meal, the fresh Italian lager Poretti is perfect; Erdinger Weisbier, a wheat beer from Germany, is full of zing ;
}}
To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum.
* {{quote-book
, year = 2000
, author = Nick Nelson
, title = The Golden Vortex
, publisher = Conscious Publishing
, isbn = 9781929096015
, ol = 8949607W
, page = 89
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=xAOfLVoyCLIC&pg=PA89&dq=zinging
, passage = We are all a second or two older than an astronaut who has been zinging around the Earth at 18000 miles per hour, because of his or her greater speed and the lack of gravity.
}}
(onomatopoeia) A high pitched humming sound.
* {{quote-song
, year = 1934
, composer =
, title =
, passage = Something inside of me started a symphony / Zing ! Went the strings of my heart
}}
(US, slang) Used to acknowledge a witty comeback, a zinger .
* {{quote-book
, year = 2002
, author = Chellie Campbell
, title = The Wealthy Spirit
, publisher = Sourcebooks
, isbn = 9781570717772
, ol = 8698152M
, page = 162
, pageurl = http://google.com/books?id=mU-DgUcd-5AC&pg=PA162&dq=zing
, passage = Zing! The joke had rebounded back on the one who started it. "Ouch!" Mama Jane winced ruefully. We all dissolved in laughter at the good-natured repartee.
}}
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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 zing and null
is that zing is a short high-pitched humming sound, eg that made by a bullet or vibrating string while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb zing
is to move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum.As an interjection zing
is (onomatopoeia) a high pitched humming sound.zing
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Interjection
(en interjection)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.