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Groin vs Null - What's the difference?

groin | null |

As nouns the difference between groin and null

is that groin is the crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb groin

is to deliver a blow to the genitals or groin can be to grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

groin

English

(wikipedia groin)

Etymology 1

From earlier grine, from (etyl) grinde, grynde, from (etyl) ; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.}}
  • The area adjoining this fold or depression.
  • He pulled a muscle in his groin .
  • (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  • (euphemistic) The genitals.
  • He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
  • (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
  • Coordinate terms
    * inguinal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deliver a blow to the genitals.
  • In the scrum he somehow got groined .
    She groined him and ran to the car.
  • (architecture) To build with groins.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
  • (Chaucer)
  • * Spenser
  • bears that groined continually

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----