Prat vs Null - What's the difference?
prat | null |
(slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
*Thomas Dekker , 1608 , The Canters Dictionarie'' in ''The Belman of London'' (second part ''Lanthorne and Candlelight )
*:Pratt , a Buttock.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 5:
*:Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.
(UK, slang) A fool.
(slang) The female genitals.
*1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz,
*:"She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."
*1984 John Murray, ed,
*:"...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat."
*2005 Sherrie Seibert Goff,
*:"My prat was sore from the unfamiliar activities of the night before, but my virgin bleeding had ceased, and we rode most of the day in that unworldly haze that comes with lack of sleep."
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 prat and null
is that prat is meadow while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.prat
English
Alternative forms
* prattEtymology 1
From (etyl) prat, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps a specialised note of Etymology 1 (see above).Noun
(en noun)The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and ExamplesVol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124:
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."
Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39:
The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse 2005, p. 135:
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* pratfall * prat about * prattery (rare) * prattish (rare)Anagrams
* part * rapt * tarp * trapReferences
*pratt'', in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex. ----
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.