Tang vs Null - What's the difference?
tang | null |
(obsolete) tongue
* 1667 , , Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew , Act V,
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
* 1904 ,
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
(figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
* Fuller
* Jeffrey
* 1913 ,
A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
The tongue of a buckle
A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
(dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.Eva Crane, The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting'', Taylor & Francis (1999), ISBN 0415924677, page 239.Hilda M. Ransome, ''The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore , Courier Dover Publications (2004), ISBN 048643494X, page 225.
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
The vagina; intercourse with a woman
* 2002 , Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed , St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0-312-31363-2, page 9,
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 tang and null
is that tang is pliers while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
- The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
- Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
- Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
- a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
- What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?
Synonyms
* bite * piquancy * spicinessAntonyms
* blandness * dullnessDerived terms
* tangy * clown tang * purple tang * Red Sea sailfin tang * sohal tang * spotted unicorn tang * yellow tangSee also
*Etymology 2
imitativeVerb
(en verb)- Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.
Etymology 3
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare DanishEtymology 4
From poontang by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- The guys like to look at her tang , because that's how they are
References
Anagrams
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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.