Geeked vs Null - What's the difference?
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(geek)
(dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial. Often used with an attributive noun.
(colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
(colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks.
* 2007' '''Kelly Boler, ''inmag.com'':''' ''"Basically," says [Harry J.] Knowles [founder, 'Ain't It Cool News' website], "it's my job to stay on top of the latest and coolest in '''geek that's out there, specifically as it relates to the world of film."
(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
(Australia, colloquial) A look.
* 2005 , , The Essential Bird ,
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 geeked
is (geek).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.geeked
English
Verb
(head)geek
English
(wikipedia geek)Etymology 1
From the British dialectal term .Noun
(en noun)- I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
- I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
- Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.
- My laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek .
- Do you need a hardware geek''' or a software '''geek ?
- Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks .
Derived terms
* geek chic * geek code * geekdom * geekery * geekly * geek out * geekySee also
* dork * freak * guru * hacker * loser * nerdEtymology 2
Probably related to keek; compare (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- Then he says let?s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.
- Have a geek at this.
Synonyms
* (sense) , gandernull
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.