Plowed vs Null - What's the difference?
plowed | null |
(plow)
Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
(figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
(US, informal) Drunk.
* 2005 , Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December , Little, Brown and Company (2005), ISBN 9780316024259,
* 2005 , Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery , Hazelden (2007), ISBN 9781592851560,
* 2013 , Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave , Atria Books (2013), ISBN 9781451678123,
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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 plowed
is (plow).As an adjective plowed
is turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.plowed
English
Alternative forms
* ploughedVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)unnumbered page:
- We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed .
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- Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed . That was my week of being "on the wagon."
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- I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed .
Synonyms
* (drunk) see also .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.