Flatulate vs Null - What's the difference?
flatulate | null |
To emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound.
* 1985 , James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kfmXSIJPvqEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&sig=b3bCCRJV6GdT6XexcyD0xVyRv88],
* 2001 , David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=SN28F6LNYJoC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&sig=TxBZb0PuzZQD6OuKnQXuKucBX1A],
* 2003 , Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=wCwan_Ke3F4C&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&sig=zg3oFEhd0DWY8D4bYGx2SIx3ieg],
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 a verb flatulate
is to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.flatulate
English
Verb
(flatulat)- Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate , lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?
- Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.
- While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate , but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly.
Synonyms
* (slang) fart * (slang) trump * See alsoCoordinate terms
* queefnull
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.