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Ey vs Null - What's the difference?

ey | null |

As nouns the difference between ey and null

is that ey is (obsolete) an egg or ey can be an island while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a pronoun ey

is (neologism) they (singular).

ey

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ey, from (etyl) . Was displaced by egg in the 16th century, most likely due to its clashing with the word "eye", with which it had come to be a homonym.

Noun

(eyren) (obsolete since the sixteenth century )
  • (obsolete) an egg

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Compare eyot.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An island.

    • Etymology 3

    (Spivak pronouns) Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from (they).

    Pronoun

  • (neologism) they (singular).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 1975-08-23 , title = Ey has a word for it , newspaper = Chicago Tribune , first = Judie , last = Black , section = 1 , page = 12 , passage = Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey' wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if '''ey''' should trip up in the new usage, ' ey would only have emself to blame. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1996-12-22 , first = Shirley , last = Worth , title = New To Yoga , newsgroup = alt.yoga , id = 32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.yoga/msg/4c5da8eb08c0d91b , passage = I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1997-11-25 , first = Scott Robert , last = Dawson , title = Who Pays for Cellular Calls , newsgroup = alt.cellular , id = 347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.cellular/msg/cffb0aa99cf205e6 , passage = If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area. }}
  • *
    • Synonyms
    * * (singular) they * (neologism) e, sie, shi, ze
    Coordinate terms
    * he, she

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns * suffix -ey English third person pronouns ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
    • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
    • (Milton)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----