Dubby vs Null - What's the difference?
dubby | null |
(music) In the style of ; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.
* {{quote-book, 2005, title=Rip it up and start again: postpunk 1978-1984, author=Simon Reynolds
, passage=What's striking about the record is how PiL assimilated both the dread feel of roots reggae and the dub aesthetic of subtraction (stripping out instruments, using empty space), without ever resorting to obviously dubby production effects like reverb and echo.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=Dance of Days: Updated Edition: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital, author=Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins
, passage=As this "song with no words" rose from its dubby beginning to a roaring Crescendo, MacKayre sang,
(dated, dialectal) stubby, stumpy; Lacking shapeliness or finesse.
* {{quote-book, 1863, title=All the year round, author=
, passage=Why is its bring an object to be perpetually plucked and pinched with dubby fingers?}}
* {{quote-book, 1868, title=So as by Fire, author=Camilla Willian
, passage=I look just like all short, dubby, light-complexioned girls.}}
(dated, dialectal) wet and muddy; dirty
* {{quote-book, 1832, title=Stanley Buxton: or, The schoolfellows, author=John Galt
, passage="Set the umbrella ready, and my pattens at the door, for I fear the roads are dubby."}}
* {{quote-book, 1994, Blackden By Duncan McLean
, passage=I was going to stand on it, but my boots are a bit dubby}}
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 an adjective dubby
is (music) in the style of ; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dubby
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See also
* dub * lubby-dubby * rubby-dubbynull
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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.