Plugged vs Null - What's the difference?
plugged | null |
(plug)
(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
(US, slang) A worthless horse.
(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
(informal) To persist or continue with something.
To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
* 1884,
(slang) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.
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 plugged
is (plug).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.plugged
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(head)Anagrams
*plug
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(wikipedia plug)Noun
(en noun)- I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
- Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
- He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
- That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
- During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
- Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
- The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
Synonyms
* (hole filler) bung, stopper * (worthless horse) dobbin, hack, jade, nagDerived terms
* butt-plug * breech plug * bridge plug * fire plug * glow plug * hawse plug * plugboard * plug and feather * plug centerbit * plug rod * plug valve * spark plugCoordinate terms
* (worthless horse) bum (racing )Verb
(plugg)- He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
- The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
- Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
- I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
- I'd love to plug her.
Anagrams
* gulp ----null
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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.