Townie vs Null - What's the difference?
townie | null |
(UK, US) A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.
(US) A person born and raised in an area of who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage.
(UK) A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area.
(UK) A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person.
(UK, pejorative) A chav.
(US) A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook.
* 1999 , Richard D. Lewis, When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures ,
* 2002 , Graeme Davison, Rural Sustainability in Historical Perspective'', Chris Cocklin, Jacqui Dibden (editors), ''Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia , University Of New South Wales Press,
* 2005 , Marc Brodie, Chapter 9: The Politics of Rural Nostalgia between the Wars'', Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie (editors), ''Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia ,
* 2008 , , Blood & Tinsel: A Memoir , Melbourne University Publishing,
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 townie and null
is that townie is (uk|us) a person living in a university area who is not associated with the university while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.townie
English
(wikipedia townie)Alternative forms
* towneeNoun
(en noun)page 191,
- The modern Aussie is a townie through and through. Australia is the least densely populated country on earth; it is also among the most highly urbanised.
page 40,
- In the 1940?s, a social survey of Victorian country towns found a similar gap between the interests and outlooks of farmers and townies , and an underlying fear on the part of the townsfolk.
page 9.9,
- In that sense, the townies , not the farmers, were the inheritors of a pioneer capacity for hard work.
page 18,
- Earlier, there would probably have been a grudge match between two townies , or locals.
Synonyms
* (chav) See synonyms at chav.Antonyms
* (person who lives in a city or town or has an urban outlook) ("farmer")See also
* (Town and gown)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.