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fluffy | null |

As a proper noun fluffy

is a popular given name for a pet, often for a cat.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

fluffy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered with fluff.
  • Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
  • Light; soft; airy.
  • I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
  • (colloquial) Warm and comforting.
  • Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
  • (colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
  • * 2008 , R.Safley, Reagan's Game
  • Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.
  • Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
  • * 2006 , Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (page 271)
  • And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro , its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.

    Noun

    (fluffies)
  • Someone or something that is fluffy
  • 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 ----