Dumpy vs Null - What's the difference?
dumpy | null |
short and thick; stout or stocky
(South Africa) A small bottle of beer.
* 2007 , Alan Murphy, Southern Africa (page 414)
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 dumpy and null
is that dumpy is (south africa) a small bottle of beer while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective dumpy
is short and thick; stout or stocky.dumpy
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(dumpies)- Lager-style beer comes in cans or dumpies (small bottles) for around US$1.10.
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.
