Eeny vs Null - What's the difference?
eeny | null |
(informal) minuscule
(informal) In a very small way.
* 1999 , Joe Klein, Woody Guthrie: A Life , page 35
* 2003 , Craig Lucas, "Reckless", in Reckless and Other Plays , page 54
* 2004 , Stephen Bayley, "Car culture: Why a MINI is better than a Porsche", Daily Telegraph , 14/08/2004
(British, dialect) Holey, cellular.
(dialect) With most, almost
(dialect) Only
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 eeny and null
is that eeny is nnw (north-northwest) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.eeny
English
Etymology 1
Possibly from teeny weenyAdjective
(-)- Can you put an eeny bit of mustard on my hot dog?
Synonyms
* itsy bitsy, itty, teeny weeny, tiny, teeny, bittyAdverb
(-)- Then they would go back to the gang house—Woody named it the Eeny House because it was so small [...].
- ... and weep and moan and scream every little eeny orgasm.
- The interior is, perhaps, an eeny bit tricksy, but has worn surprisingly well over nearly four years and did not really need the light refreshment it has received in the Cabrio
Etymology 2
(en)Adjective
(-)Etymology 3
(en)Adjective
(-)Adverb
(-)- He eeny most had enough to eat.
- He's eeny just come home.
Anagrams
* *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.