Ginnel vs Null - What's the difference?
ginnel | null |
(British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
* 1885 , ,
* 1988 , , Penguin Books 1988, page 169
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 ginnel and null
is that ginnel is (british|especially yorkshire and lancashire) a narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ginnel
English
Alternative forms
* guinnel * gennelNoun
(en noun)Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland, page 59:
- … maks things as pleasant as stondin in a ginnel ov a wyndy neet waitin o'th' sweetheart comin out.
- At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood.
Synonyms
* alley, alleyway, passage, passagewaynull
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.