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glutton | null |

As nouns the difference between glutton and null

is that glutton is one who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective glutton

is gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.

As a verb glutton

is (archaic) to glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.

glutton

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller):
  • A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.
  • * 1597 , i 3 :
  • So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge
    Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
  • Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.
  • (figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
  • * 1705 , George Granville, The British Enchanters :
  • "Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy."
  • * :
  • Hope is a subtle Glutton / He feeds upon the Fair
  • * 1878 , :
  • "A good few indeed, my man," replied the captain. "Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton ."
  • The wolverine, Gulo gulo , of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
  • Synonyms

    * (voracious eater) see

    See also

    * glutton for punishment

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
  • *(and other bibliographic detailes), (Lovelace)
  • Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.
  • * 1915 , Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser, Cosmetologist and Proprietor :
  • In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.'
  • (obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
  • * (and other bibliographic detailes), (Drayton)
  • Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.
  • * 1598
  • Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

    References

    Mustelids

    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 ----