Souses vs Null - What's the difference?
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(souse)
Something kept or steeped in brine
# The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
#* (and other bibliographic details) Tusser
## (US, Appalachian) Pickled scrapple.
## (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
# A pickle made with salt.
# The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
A person suffering from the disease of alcoholism.
To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
* (and other bibliographic details) Addison
* (and other bibliographic details) Gascoigne
*1913 , , (Sons and Lovers) ,
*:As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.
The act of sousing, or swooping.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Spenser)
A heavy blow.
* 1596 , Spencer, Fairie Queene
to strike, beat
to fall heavily
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
* (and other bibliographic details) J. Dryden. Jr.
to pounce upon
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
(label) sou (the French coin)
(label) A small amount
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 a verb souses
is (souse).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.souses
English
Verb
(head)souse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse .
See also
* (food) brawn, budin, haggis, head cheese, pudding, sausage, scrappleVerb
(sous)- They soused me over head and ears in water.
- although I be well soused in this shower
Derived terms
* sousedEtymology 2
Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (noise).Noun
(en noun)- As a falcon fair / That once hath failed or her souse full near.
- His murdrous mace he vp did reare, That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare.
Verb
(sous)- Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.
- Jove's bird will souse upon the tim'rous hare.
- [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
Etymology 3
(plural of (m)).Noun
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.