Gutter vs Null - What's the difference?
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A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
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A ditch along the side of a road.
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A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
A space between printed columns of text.
(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
(British) A drainage channel.
The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
To flow or stream; to form gutters.
(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
To supply with a gutter or gutters.
To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
One who or that which guts.
* 1921 , Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
* 2013 , Don Keith, ?Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
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 gutter and null
is that gutter is a prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water or gutter can be one who or that which guts while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb gutter
is to flow or stream; to form gutters.gutter
English
(Street gutter)Etymology 1
(etyl) gotere, from (etyl) goutiere (FrenchNoun
(en noun)- The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
- Get your mind out of the gutter .
- What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
Derived terms
* gutter ball, gutterball * gutter member * guttermouth * gutter plane * guttersnipe * gutter stickSee also
(pedia) * goutVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter .
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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.
