Buster vs Null - What's the difference?
buster | null |
Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
* 1614 , S. Jerome, Moses his Sight of Canaan , 147:
* 2005 , J. Madhavan, Sita & Forest Bandits , 122:
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#* 1940 September 2, Life , 29/1:
#* 1958 February 10, Life , 70:
Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
# A bronco-buster.
#* 1891 July, Harper's Magazine , 208/2
# (Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element).
#* 1920 , F. A. McKenzie, ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson , v. 83:
#* 1974''' July 4, ''New Scientist , 65/2:
#* 1984 November 18, N.Y. Times , iv. 24/2:
Someone]] or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, [[etc..
* 1833 April, Parthenon , 293:
* 2004 November 20, South Wales Echo , 9:
# : guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster' .)
#* 1838 March 24, New Yorker , 4/1:
#* 1919 , , ''(My Man Jeeves), 79:
#* 2001 , S. MacKay, Fall Guy , ix. 113:
A loaf of bread.
* 1835 September 16, Morning Post , 4/2:
* 1904 June 8, Journal of the Department of Labour (New Zealand), 536:
A drinking spree, a binge.
* 1848 , John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms :
* 1922 , (James Joyce), , 405:
a southerly buster.
* 1848 , John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms
* 1886 , Frank Cowan, Australia , 14:
* 1991 , J. Moore, By Way of Wind , 121:
a staged fall, a pratfall.
* 1874 April, Baily's Monthly Magazine , 114:
A molting crab.
*1855 October 18, Henry A. Wise, letter in J.P. Hambleton's Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise (1856), 448:
* 2002 January 6, N.Y. Times , v. 4/6:
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 buster and null
is that buster is (a specific instance of) buster : guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a proper noun buster
is or buster can be (male).buster
English
(Buster)Alternative forms
* Buster * -busterNoun
(en noun)- Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?
- Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.
- German ‘balloon busters ’ attack the Dover barrage.
- Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.
- The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.
- Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster ’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.
- The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].
- New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters' and cigarette foes are ' smokebusters .
- ‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster , I tell you.’
- What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.
- That's generous, old buster .
- An extremely wealthy old buster .
- ‘Careful, buster ,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’
- Three penny busters , and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.
- An 8 loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster ’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.
- They were on a buster , and were taken up by the police.
- All off for a buster , armstrong, hollering down the street.
- ‘This is a buster ,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.
- The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.
- When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.
- Dainty... came down ‘a buster ’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.
- In that state he is called a ‘Buster ’, bursting his shell.
- Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.
Derived terms
* ballbuster, ball-buster * balloon-buster * belly-buster, belly buster * blockbuster, block-buster * booze-buster * brainbuster * broncobuster, bronco-buster, bronco buster * bunker buster * chartbuster * come a buster * crime buster, crime-buster, crimebuster * dam-buster * dustbuster, dust buster * fort-buster * gangbuster * gangbusters * ghostbuster * have a buster * knuckle-buster * old buster * price buster * rate-buster * rust-buster * scud-buster * ship-buster * skull-buster * tankbuster * unionbusterAnagrams
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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.