Gull vs Null - What's the difference?
gull | null |
(slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
* 1599 ,
One easily cheated; a dupe.
To deceive or cheat.
* Dryden
* Coleridge
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
(US, slang) To mislead.
(US, slang) To trick and defraud.
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 gull and null
is that gull is a seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As verbs the difference between gull and null
is that gull is to deceive or cheat while null is to nullify; to annul.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.gull
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .Synonyms
* (seabird) mew, seagullEtymology 2
Perhaps from an obsolete termNoun
(en noun)- BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
Synonyms
* (dupe) See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
- I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
- speak your curses out
- Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
- A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
- An innocent lady, gull an Emperor
Derived terms
* gullible * gullibilityReferences
External links
* (wikipedia) * (Larus) ----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.