Gadling vs Null - What's the difference?
gadling | null |
roving vagabond; one who roams
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, year=1947
, year_published=2006
, edition=digitized
, editor=
, author=Thomas Bertram Costain
, title=The Moneyman
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A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
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, year=1906
, year_published=2008
, edition=HTML
, editor=
, author=Rudyard Kipling
, title=Puck of Pook's Hill
, chapter=
A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.
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 gadling and null
is that gadling is roving vagabond; one who roams while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gadling
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=57 , passage=I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling , as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village. }}
citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page=96 , passage=“Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?” }}
References
(Webster 1913) * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedianull
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.