Arse vs Null - What's the difference?
arse | null |
The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.
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*:& thenne he rode after the bore / & thenne syre la?celot was ware where the bore set his ars to a tree by an hermytage / Thenne sir launcelot ranne atte bore with his spere / & ther with the bore torned hym nemly
*2011 , James Smart, The Guardian , 12 March:
*:As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
A stupid, mean or despicable person.
*2007 , Martin Harrison, The Judgement of Paris ,
*:“You're an arse',” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an '''arse'''. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an ' arse .”
*2007 , L. A. Wilson, The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear ,
*:He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse', when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you ' arse ,” he said and tried again.
*2011 , Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes ,
*:Felnigg. What a suppurating arse'. Look at him. ' Arse .
(slang) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.
* 1985 , Sam McAughtry, McAughtry's War ,
* 2005 , ,
* 2011 , Jaine Fenn, Bringer of Light ,
(slang) To make, to bother.
* 2008', Lynn Broadbent, Infinite Ideas Staff, ''
* 2008 , Guy Cullen, Loose Ends ,
* 2011 , Ray Banks. Beast of Burden ,
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 an abbreviation arse
is (biochemistry) arylsulfatase e, an enzyme, deficiencies in which are associated with abnormalities in cartilage and bone development.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.arse
English
(wikipedia arse)Alternative forms
* ass (US)Noun
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "arse")Derived terms
(terms derived from arse) * do not know their arse from their elbow * arse bandit * arsehole * arseface * arsehat * arseman * arsey/arsy * arsing * duck's arse * duck-arsed * hang an arse (obsolete) * kick arse * kiss my arse * smart arse * tight-arseVerb
- Stop arsing around!
page 10,
- He was university material, just arsing' about as a rigger, ' arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me.
page 291,
- Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.
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- He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing' around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of ' arsing around was allowed.
- I can't be arsed to write that essay for tomorrow.
- I couldn't be arsed to write that essay for tomorrow.
Be '''Arsed: 365 Brilliant Ideas for Getting Off Your Backside and Living Life to the Full .
page 2,
- You can keep all the macho bollocks that goes with the job. I can't be arsed who thinks what of me to be perfectly honest and I have no time for those that are.
page 133,
- but here's the way you're supposed to run it: make out like it'll be a long, drawn out process, that you can't be arsed' and that they ''shouldn?t'' be ' arsed because it'll probably end up doing fuck all except getting a copper pissed off at them.
Derived terms
* arse about * arse around * half-arsednull
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.