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Donnybrook vs Null - What's the difference?

donnybrook | null |

As nouns the difference between donnybrook and null

is that donnybrook is a brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

donnybrook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
  • * 1888 , , ‘His Chance in Life’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio 2005), page 56:
  • But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom (Oxford 2003), page 200:
  • Sherman's signature caused another donnybrook over the election of a speaker of the House when the 36th Congress convened in December 1859.
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea (Vintage 2003), page 223:
  • This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----