Ghetto vs Null - What's the difference?
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An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
* 2009 , Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city (ISBN 0300112343), page 25:
* 2010 , Mike Lindner, Leaving Terror Behind: A Boy's Journey to Painting Over the Past (ISBN 1615664149), page 49:
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An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
* 1998 , Steven J. L. Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders (ISBN 0791439194), page 15:
* 1998 , Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (ISBN 0226342441), page 253:
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An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
* 2006 , Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, ISBN 0789016036), page 201:
* 2007 , Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ISBN 1741044782), page 190:
* 2001 , Justin Taylor, ''The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel (ISBN 0061881821), page 64:
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Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
* {{quote-book, title=Army Life: The First Four Months in My First Duty Station, page 15,
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(US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
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Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
* 1964 , James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow , page 274:
* 2001 , Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties (ISBN 0060935502), page 526:
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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 ghetto and null
is that ghetto is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ghetto
English
Noun
- The Venetian ghetto', according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ' ghetto , on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.
- Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes .
- By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto .
- Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto . The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.
- The student ghetto , southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.
- They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians,
Derived terms
* ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * ghettoise, ghettoizeAdjective
(en adjective)- My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
- I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
Derived terms
* nonghettoVerb
(es)- This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
- All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights.
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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.