Puke vs Null - What's the difference?
puke | null |
(uncountable) vomit.
* 2007', '''',
(countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
(countable) A worthless, despicable person.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
* 1599 ,
A fine grade of woolen cloth
:* Puke -stocking caddis garter
A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.
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 puke and null
is that puke is (uncountable) vomit while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb puke
is (transitive|and|intransitive) to vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.As an adjective puke
is a fine grade of woolen cloth.puke
English
Etymology 1
1581, first mention is the derivative . More at (l).Noun
The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the ' puke saber"
- the puke saber [...] pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"
Synonyms
* See * (person) rotterVerb
(puk)- At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* pukerEtymology 2
(en)Adjective
(-)- 1599 ,
References
* wollencloth:Word Detective* The Universal Dictionary of English, 1896, 4 vols: "Of a dark colour, said to be between black and russet." ----
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.