Chib vs Null - What's the difference?
chib | null |
(Scotland, Geordie, slang) To shiv (stab).
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 61:
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 chib and null
is that chib is (scotland|geordie|slang) a shiv (makeshift knife) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb chib
is (scotland|geordie|slang) to shiv (stab).chib
English
Alternative forms
* chiv, shiv, shiveVerb
- And if they had knives too, their gang had all knives and people were going to get chibbed .
References
*Scottish Vernacular Dictionary----
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.