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Blag vs Null - What's the difference?

blag | null |

As nouns the difference between blag and null

is that blag is child, kid (up to circa 14 years) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

blag

English

Verb

(blagg)
  • (British, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
  • (British, informal) More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
  • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of Gordon Brown's flat purchase from his solicitors.
  • (British, informal, transitive) To beg, to cadge.
  • Can I blag a fag?
  • (UK, informal, transitive) To steal.
  • (Polari) To pick up someone.
  • To persuade.
  • He's blagged his way into many a party.
  • To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.
  • Synonyms

    * pretext

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
  • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
  • An armed robbery.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, informal) Fake, not genuine.
  • You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

    Derived terms

    * blagger, Blagger

    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 ----