Narc vs Null - What's the difference?
narc | null |
(slang)
(slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (e.g. while scuba diving).
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 narc and null
is that narc is (slang) a narcotics squad police officer or narc can be (slang) (spy) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb narc
is (slang) or narc can be (slang) to suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (eg while scuba diving).narc
English
(wikipedia narc)Etymology 1
Abbreviation of "narcotics officer".Etymology 2
Alternate spelling of .Verb
(en verb)- “If you narc on me, I’ll rip your arms off”, said Tim to his little brother, as he passed him a cigarette.
See also
* stool pigeonEtymology 3
Short for "narcosis", etymologically related to the first etymology (from "narcotics officer") but instead referring to the medical condition of nitrogen narcosis rather than to narcotics.Verb
(en verb)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.