Mong vs Null - What's the difference?
mong | null |
(Australian slang) A mongrel dog.'>citation
* 1965 , Brian James, The Big Burn: Short Stories ,
(dated, offensive, pejorative, British, slang) A person with Down's syndrome.
(pejorative, British, slang) A stupid person.
(obsolete) a variant spelling of
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 mong and null
is that mong is (dialect) a mixture, a crowdchambers twentieth century dictionary or mong can be (australian slang) a mongrel dog or mong can be (dated|offensive|pejorative|british|slang) a person with down's syndrome while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a preposition mong
is (obsolete) a variant spelling of.mong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Derived terms
* mongcornEtymology 2
Contraction of (mongrel).Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- Some blue cattle-dogs and a small pack of mongs barked excitedly, and danced round, and wished they knew what to do in such an unheard-of situation; and no doubt dreamed for days after of what they had done to distinguish themselves.
Etymology 3
Contraction of Mongol or mongoloid.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
Shortened from (among)Preposition
(head)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.