Lad vs Null - What's the difference?
lad | null |
A boy or young man.
(British) A jack the lad; a boyo.
A familiar term of address for a young man.
A groom who works with horses (also called stable-lad ).
(Ireland) The penis.
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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 lad and null
is that lad is lady while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lad
English
Noun
(en noun)- I think he reckons he's a bit of a lad.
Usage notes
Prevalent in Northern English dialects such as Geordie, Mackem, Scouse and Northumbrian.References
* * * * * *External links
*lad] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
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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.