Bunk vs Null - What's the difference?
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One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=6 (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
(military) A cot.
(US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
(US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
(slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
(British) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
(obsolete) To expel from a school.
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 bunk and null
is that bunk is one of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers or bunk can be (slang) bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb bunk
is to occupy a bunk or bunk can be (british) to fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').bunk
English
(wikipedia bunk)Etymology 1
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English , origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian. Confer Old Swedish . See also boarding, flooring and confer bunch.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
Derived terms
* bunk bed, bunkbed * bunkmateEtymology 2
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from . See (m) for more.Noun
(-)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* debunkEtymology 3
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.Verb
(en verb)References
* * *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.