Culchie vs Null - What's the difference?
culchie | null |
(Dublin, slang, pejorative, offensive) A rural person.
* 1987 , (Roddy Doyle), (The Commitments) , King Farouk, Dublin:
* 1991 , Management Centre Europe,
* 2005 , Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change , John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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 culchie and null
is that culchie is (dublin|slang|pejorative|offensive) a rural person[http://booksgooglecom/books?id=ampoawl3kzcc&pg=pa106&dq=culchie+dublin+raymond+hickey&hl=en&sa=x&ei=binat8wig6nhialdi5wrcw&ved=0cdoq6aewaa#v=onepage&q&f=false dublin english: evolution and change ] p 106, by raymond hickey john benjamins publishing company, 2005 isbn: 90-272-4895-8 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.culchie
English
Noun
(en noun)Dublin English: evolution and changep. 106, by Raymond Hickey. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. ISBN: 90-272-4895-8.
- 1. Only culchies shop in Clery's but, said Billy.
Industrial relations Europe, Volume 19, Issue 264.
- New European Social Affairs Commissioner (Padraig Flynn), 53, is a flamboyant wheeler-dealer of a kind common in Irish (and American) political life. For most of his quarter-century in Ireland's parliament, he was regarded as the archetypal "culchie ", Dublin slang for an unpolished, reactionary rural type.
- A dismissive attitude towards rural accents was all too prevalent: accents outside Dublin being described as 'culchie , bogger, mucker' accents.
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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.