Bleg vs Null - What's the difference?
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(Northeast England) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus ).
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(internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
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* 2010 , James Wolcott, "
* 2012 , Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After , Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2012), ISBN 9781596987845,
(internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
* 2008 , "Strange looks and funny lines from the past week", Atlanta Journal-Constitution , 18 May 2008:
* 2009 , John J. Miller, "
* 2009 , Curtis Brainard, "
* 2010 , Iain Murray, "
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 bleg and null
is that bleg is (northeast england) a pouting (trisopterus luscus ) or bleg can be (internet slang) an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb bleg
is (internet slang) to create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.bleg
English
Etymology 1
Unknown.Noun
(en noun)Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo , 4 July 2007:
- Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg )
Sea Angling latest", Sunderland Echo , 7 November 2007:
- Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs ) on squid.
Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up", Sunderland Echo , 29 May 2008:
- The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs .
Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open", Sunderland Echo , 10 December 2010:
- Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg .
Etymology 2
.Ben Zimmer, "Web]", The New York Times'', 11 November 2010Anglo-American writer claims to have coined this word in 2002,John Derbyshire, "[http://old.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire080102.asp July Diary", ''National Review Online , 1 August 2002 although earlier usage may have occurred.
Noun
(en noun)- I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
The Utter Arrogance Of It", The Atlantic , 29 August 2008:
- Here's a bleg : can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
A Grammer of Motives*", Vanity Fair , 9 September 2010:
- Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
page 267(acknowledgments section):
- This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find;
Verb
(blegg)- That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
- The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
Novels of the Right, cont.", National Review Online , 30 November 2009:
- About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…", Columbia Journalism Review , 7 August 2009:
- Zimmer had "blegged " (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
Chicagoan Voting System!", National Review Online , 15 April 2010:
- Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
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.