Gom vs Null - What's the difference?
gom | null |
(Ireland) A foolish person.
* 1926 , , (The Plough and the Stars) , Act II, 173:
* 2007 , John Maher, The Luck Penny , page 145:
* 2013 , Outrageous Pride (ISBN 1626229058)
* 2014 , Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy (ISBN 160980502X):
(Appalachian)
* 1911 , Why moles have hands'', in ''The Wit and Humor of America , edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:
God!
* 1804 , an entry in the Theatrical Journal'' of ''The European Magazine: And London Review , volume 45, page 373:
* 1829 , The Humours of Vauxhall'', in ''The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth , volume 2, page 164:
* 1861 , The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer , volumes 9-10, page 36:
* 1908 , Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools , page 224:
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 gom and null
is that gom is eraser while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gom
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* gawmNoun
(en noun)- Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom .
- And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.
- He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed
- "Yeah! She's a right gom ! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"
Etymology 2
Variant of (m).Noun
(en noun)- ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.
Etymology 3
Minced oath.Interjection
(en interjection)- There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom ! I respect him as much as myself,
- O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom ! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
- "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom , sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."
- Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom , no. It wasn't hereabouts."
Anagrams
* * * Appalachian English ----null
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.