Gunny vs Null - What's the difference?
gunny | null |
(uncountable) A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 102:
*:Provisions were ferried by camel in stout sacks of gunny with blocks of ice packed round them; a herculean task.
(countable) A gunny sack.
(countable, informal) A gunnery sergeant.
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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 gunny and null
is that gunny is (uncountable) a coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp or gunny can be (countable|informal) a gunnery sergeant while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gunny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) and (etyl).Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* gunnybag * gunnyclothEtymology 2
A shortening of (gunnery sergeant)Noun
(gunnies)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.