Oink vs Null - What's the difference?
oink | null |
Representing the sound made by a pig.
Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig ).
* 1982 , Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny?
* 2003 , Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
* 2005 , Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
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 oink and null
is that oink is the sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an interjection oink
is representing the sound made by a pig.As a verb oink
is of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.oink
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink , oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
- "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink , oink!"
- You are such a male chauvinist oink , oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.
Noun
(en noun)- The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks .
Synonyms
* gruntVerb
(en verb)- The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.
Synonyms
* gruntSee also
* grunt * squealAnagrams
*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.