Hoyden vs Null - What's the difference?
hoyden | null |
(archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
* 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
* 1997 , Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain :
Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.
*1796 , Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark ,
*:Many of the country girls I met appeared to me pretty--that is, to have fine complexions, sparkling eyes, and a kind of arch, hoyden playfulness which distinguishes the village coquette.
*1809 , Washington Irwing, Knickerbocker's History of New York ,
*:At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting--no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones [..]
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 hoyden and null
is that hoyden is (archaic) a rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective hoyden
is like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.hoyden
English
Noun
(en noun)- She is a hoyden , one will say. At any rate she is not a lady, another will exclaim. I have suspected her all through, a third will declare; she has no idea of the dignity of a matron; or of the peculiar propriety which her position demands.
- her ladyship burst suddenly into the schoolroom to introduce Mr. Perriam, who, as she announced from the doorway to Maisie, wouldn't believe his ears that one had a great hoyden of a daughter.
- Not all ladies in my profession are as that shameless hoyden , Mrs Charke, that has brought such distress through her malicious conduct and ill repute upon her worthy father, Mr Cibber; far from it, sir.
- Tabitha is lighting the candles in the sconces. A great, strong, heavy girl, a hoyden , not pretty, her face distinguished only by youth, by health.
Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
*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.