Facer vs Null - What's the difference?
facer | null |
An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat
* 2005' : "You're such a snob," she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a '''facer . - , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, 6)
(obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
(obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
* Charles Kingsley
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 facer and null
is that facer is an unexpected and stunning blow or defeat while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.facer
English
Noun
(en noun)- I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer .
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.