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gummy | null |

As nouns the difference between gummy and null

is that gummy is (australia) or gummy can be (usually|in the plural) a gummy candy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective gummy

is showing the gums or gummy can be resembling gum (the substance ).

gummy

English

Etymology 1

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Adjective

(er)
  • Showing the gums.
    • a gummy grin
    Derived terms
    * gummily * gumminess

    Noun

    (gummies)
  • (Australia)
  • * 2000 , Paul Worsteling, Fishing Western Port , page 12,
    • Over there [the UK], gummies are called smooth hound and a six kilo fish would stop the nation.
  • * 2007 , Bill Classon, Fishing Guide to Victoria?s Coastline , Australian Fishing Network, page 60,
    • Western Port is a great location to find gummies .Gummy sharks are one of the favoured species in Western Port and for good reason: they put up a strong fight and feed of fresh flake is pretty hard to beat.
  • * 2008 , , Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds , page 44,
    • This area of vast mudflats is right at the top of the port is home to some of the best gummy shark fishing around.As the water drops, the feeding gummies drop off the banks and wait in the channels for food.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A sheep that is losing or has lost its teeth.

    • Etymology 2

    . The noun was influenced by (m) (from (etyl)).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling gum (the substance ).
  • Covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
  • * Milton:
    • the gummy bark of fir or pine
  • * Dryden:
    • Then rubs his gummy eyes.
    Synonyms
    * gluey, gooey, sticky, tacky
    Derived terms
    * gumminess * gummy bear * gummy tumor, gummy tumour

    Noun

    (gummies)
  • (usually, in the plural) A gummy candy.
  • *
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * gummy bear (gummi bear) * gummy worm (gummi worm)

    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)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----