Hootenanny vs Null - What's the difference?
hootenanny | null |
(obsolete) A Placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing (see thingamajig, whatchamacallit)
An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.
English placeholder terms
Appalachian English
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 hootenanny and null
is that hootenanny is (obsolete) a placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing (see thingamajig, whatchamacallit) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hootenanny
English
Etymology 1
Unknown; potentially Scottish. Use is tied to the Appalachian culture in the US.Noun
(hootenannies)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.