Oner vs Null - What's the difference?
oner | null |
(informal) An extraordinary individual.
A small marble of little worth in children's games.
* 2012 , Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest (page 143)
(UK) A conker that has won one match.
* 1993 , (Henry Normal), Nude modelling for the afterlife
* 2005 , Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Britain (page 32)
* 2006 , Charles Campion, Fifty Recipes To Stake Your Life On (page 119)
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 oner and null
is that oner is (informal) an extraordinary individual while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.oner
English
Noun
(en noun)- The winner was the last to flick a marble into the gully. A oner had to beat a fourer four times to win, a fourer had to beat a twelver three times, and so on.
- May all your conkers be oners / May your love life fail with dishonours
- The history of 'oners' becoming 'sixers' through successive victories
- Conkers so highly prized that it's a wonder they even manage to hit the ground before being swept away to be pickled or baked and then going on to new careers as 'oners' , 'twoers', and so forth.
Synonyms
* one of a kindAnagrams
* * *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.