Bogey vs Null - What's the difference?
bogey | null |
(archaic) The Devil.
An object of terror; a bugbear.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 54:
*:If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy , it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson.
One of two sets of wheels under a train car.
(UK) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
(engineering) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
(engineering) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen, and often suspected to be hostile. (Also sometimes used as a synonym for bandit - an enemy aircraft)
(golf) A score of one over par in golf.
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 bogey and null
is that bogey is (archaic) the devil while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb bogey
is (golf) to make a bogey.bogey
English
Alternative forms
* bogie * bogyNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (piece of semisolid mucus) booger (US)See also
* bogart / Bogart ----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.