Brownie vs Null - What's the difference?
brownie | null |
A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
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* 2005 , Aaron Lazare, On Apology ,
* 2005 , Steve Otto, Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie ,
(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would do people's housework for them.
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* 2004 , Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher (editors), Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End ,
(paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Also rarely used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
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 brownie and null
is that brownie is (britain|canada|australia) a junior girl guide while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.brownie
English
(wikipedia brownie) (Chocolate brownie)Noun
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- if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end.
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- On a Saturday afternoon, my wife bought her favorite treat for dessert that evening, a gourmet, nut-filled brownie .
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- After cooking the brownies' until we could smell the pot, we each ate a large ' brownie .
The Adventures of A '''Brownie.
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- Stories were told of a brownie riding horseback to fetch the midwife at childbirth or helping his master to win at checkers.
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- There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink.
Derived terms
* chocolate brownie * hash brownienull
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.