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Ferroequinologist vs Null - What's the difference?

ferroequinologist | null |

As nouns the difference between ferroequinologist and null

is that ferroequinologist is (humorous|nonstandard) a student of ferroequinology; a person who studies trains while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ferroequinologist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (humorous, nonstandard) A student of ferroequinology; a person who studies trains.
  • * 1954 , Trains , Kalmbach Pub. Co.
  • And because you care, you’ve automatically classified yourself as a railfan (alias railroad enthusiast, train-watcher, ferroequinologist ).
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , date = 1990-10-19 , author = Bruce Tiffany , title = Re: 'America, a Godless State' and 'Barbaric Theists' merged. , newsgroup = alt.atheism , passage = The fact that automobiles, buildings, clothing, bridges, watches, locomotives (my personal favorite, being a ferroequinologist !), ad infinitum are designed by people has no bearing whatsoever... }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , date = 1991-11-20 , author = Warren T. Brill , title = Re: what does this mean? , newsgroup = rec.railroad , passage = It's a schnazzy-looking engine, looks a lot like a GP-35, which I believe our ferroequinologist guru Roger Mitchell says it was rebuilt from. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • , date = 1992-08-08 , author = Doretta Hanschka , title = Re: Outta here for awhile... , newsgroup = bit.listserv.words-l , passage = I'd tell you to take the kids on the mixed train.... It was fun even for a raiload victim like me - ferroequinologist father. }}

    Synonyms

    * (enthusiast) railfan

    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)

    See also

    * nil ----