Gulp vs Null - What's the difference?
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The usual amount swallowed.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
The sound of swallowing.
A sound of swallowing indicating fear.
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* 1994 , James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
* Cowper
* Fielding
To react nervously by swallowing.
* 1930 , P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress , 2004, page 198
* 2003 , Carl Deuker, High Heat , page 140
* 2006 , Nancy Anne Nicholson, Thin White Female in No Acute Distress: A Memoir , page 187
Indication of an involuntary fear reaction.
* 1982 , Gary Smalley, If Only He Knew , page 163
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 gulp and null
is that gulp is the usual amount swallowed while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb gulp
is to swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.As an interjection gulp
is indication of an involuntary fear reaction.gulp
English
Noun
(en noun)- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
- Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp .
- Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp' factor" […], there should be an almost audible "' gulp ".
Verb
(en verb)- He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.
- The old man glibly gulped down the whole narrative.
- The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped . The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]"
- I'd always been nervous-excited; this was nervous-terrified. When I finished puking, I sat down gulping air for a while, trying to pull myself together.
- My heart was beating madly and I was gulping nervous energy.
Synonyms
* See alsoInterjection
(en interjection)- "Honey, I know you want to go to their home next week, hut there's one thing that keeps happening when we're together that really drives me away from social gatherings in general. (Oh, what is it … gulp'.) Well, I'm not sure I can really explain it without offending you. ('''Gulp''', ' gulp .) Do you really want to talk about it? (Yes.) […]"
See also
* (in the sense of an amount swallowed)Anagrams
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* (swallowing) ----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.