Sing vs Null - What's the difference?
sing | null |
To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
To soothe with singing.
(slang) To confess under interrogation.
To make a small, shrill sound.
* Alexander Pope
To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
* Prior
A gathering for the purpose of singing songs.
* 2002 , Martha Mizell Puckett, ?Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom (page 198)
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 sing and null
is that sing is a gathering for the purpose of singing songs while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sing
is to produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.sing
English
Verb
- "I really want to sing in the school choir." said Vera .
citation
- to sing somebody to sleep
- The air sings in passing through a crevice.
- O'er his head the flying spear / Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.
- Bid her sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* besing * sing along / sing-along * singer * sing from the same hymnbook * singing cowboy * sing out * singsong * sing soprano * sing the praisesSee also
* singeNoun
(en noun)- Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.
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.