Dinge vs Null - What's the difference?
dinge | null |
Dinginess.
A black person.
*1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010 p. 3:
*:‘A dinge ,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 46:
*:‘You made a hit with the dinge ,’ Bob was saying.
To strike, scourge, or beat.
To flog, as in penance
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 dinge and null
is that dinge is dinginess while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb dinge
is to strike, scourge, or beat.dinge
English
Etymology 1
From (dingy).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*dinge queenEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Derived terms
* dinged-upAnagrams
* ----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.