Blunt vs Null - What's the difference?
blunt | null |
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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, chapter=17 Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Hard to impress or penetrate.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
A short needle with a strong point.
(smoking) A marijuana cigar.
* 2005': to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a '''blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, ''Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
(UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
(figuratively) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
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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 blunt and null
is that blunt is blunt (marijuana cigar) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.blunt
English
Adjective
(er)- The murderous knife was dull and blunt .
The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
- His wits are not so blunt .
- the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
- a plain, blunt man
- I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
Synonyms
* (having a thick edge or point) dull, pointless, coarse * (dull in understanding) stupid, obtuse * (abrupt in address) curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harshDerived terms
* blunt instrument * bluntly * bluntnessNoun
(en noun)- Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit. }}
See also
* bluntly * dull ----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.
