Greyback vs Null - What's the difference?
greyback | null |
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
* 1871 , Mary Stephens Robinson, A household story of the American conflict
*1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 739:
*:Sheridan managed to keep the graybacks at bay while he tore up the railroad, but he abandoned the plan to link up with Hunter, and the southerners soon repaired the railroad.
(dated) A louse.
* 1886 , Central Reporter: Cases, Courts of Last Resort
A local name for various grey birds.
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 greyback and null
is that greyback is (historical|us|colloquial) a confederate soldier during the us civil war (because of the grey uniforms) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.greyback
English
Alternative forms
*graybackNoun
(en noun)- ...to resist the farther advance of the greybacks .
- It is alleged by the defendant that there were scabs and greybacks in it, and that it did not come up to the quality of No. 1 slate as contracted for.
Derived terms
* greyback cane grub * greyback goosenull
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.