Gruntle vs Null - What's the difference?
gruntle | null |
(obsolete) To utter small, low grunts.
(obsolete) To complain; to grumble
(humorous) To humour; to induce the opposite effect of causing a person to become disgruntled.
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 gruntle and null
is that gruntle is a grunting sound while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb gruntle
is (obsolete) to utter small, low grunts or gruntle can be (humorous) to humour; to induce the opposite effect of causing a person to become disgruntled.gruntle
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(gruntl)Etymology 2
From .Etymology 3
back-formation from disgruntledVerb
(gruntl)Usage notes
To gruntle is not in normal usage. It has gained a certain currency amongst information security specialists to describe a process whereby the negative feelings of a disgruntled user might be reduced, or positive feelings induced.Synonyms
* regruntlenull
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.