Porky vs Null - What's the difference?
porky | null |
Resembling or characteristic of pork.
* 2010 , Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)
(slang) Rather fat.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.
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 porky and null
is that porky is (cockney rhyming slang) a lie while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective porky
is resembling or characteristic of pork.porky
English
Etymology 1
FromAdjective
(er)- It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
Synonyms
* (rather fat) chubby, chunky, tubbyEtymology 2
Shortened from (pork pie)Noun
(porkies)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.