Beaner vs Null - What's the difference?
beaner | null |
(US, racial slur, offensive) A Mexican.
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, passage=Hey bro I'm a beaner , we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?}}
* {{quote-book, year=2005, title=
, passage=I'm a beaner , and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!}}
(baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
(by extension, informal) Head.
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(US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
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* {{quote-book, title=The Sunset Tree, author=Martha Ostenso, pages=106, date=1949, publisher=Dodd, Mead
, passage=Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner ! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart}}
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 beaner and null
is that beaner is (us|racial slur|offensive) a mexican or beaner can be (baseball) a pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.beaner
English
Etymology 1
From . Literally "a person who eats refried beans".Noun
(en noun)citation
References
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- Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner , Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”
Usage notes
This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.References
*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.