Eggplant vs Null - What's the difference?
eggplant | null |
(North America) The plant Solanum melongena .
(North America) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena : an aubergine.
(North America) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
(US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
* 2004 , Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life :
* 2006 , Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino
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 eggplant and null
is that eggplant is (north america) the plant solanum melongena while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.eggplant
English
Alternative forms
* egg-plantNoun
- "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant -this and nigger-that at me," she said.
- What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant ."
Synonyms
* (the plant or its fruit) aubergine (UK), brinjal * (the fruit) melongene (UK)See also
* (wikipedia "eggplant")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.