Purler vs Null - What's the difference?
purler | null |
(UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble.
* 1869 , “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland ,
* 1954 , British Broadcasting Corporation, , Volume 51,
* 1986 , Judith Saxton (), Family Feeling , 2012,
* 2003 , Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read'', ''The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: And Other Stories , 2011,
(UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong.
* 1867 , , 2006,
(Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good.
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And you come along with that purler . 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 purler and null
is that purler is (uk|colloquial) a headlong fall or tumble or purler can be (australia|colloquial) something extremely good while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.purler
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- He came a purler on the icy path.
page 172,
- Dilston and Savernake: the latter led, and turned, but in trying to kill came down a purler , which completely knocked all the go out of him; Dilston took possession of the hare, and kept it, winning the course in hollow style.
page 67,
- Her French-speaking table in the dining-room is a riot of second-rate behaviour and dexterously aimed bread-pellets; the stairs outside her bedroom are relentlessly buttered and she comes purler' after ' purler .
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- Yet he was very sure that he had tripped and gone a purler just as he was leaving the Other Place . . . had that made him gash his forehead, once he was back in the pit?
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- ‘You could hold the ladder,’ Mart said, ‘see I don?t come a purler .’
page 60,
- but, falling with a mighty crash, gave him a purler on the opposite side, and was within an inch of striking him dead with his hoof in frantic struggles to recover.
Synonyms
* (headlong fall or tumble) * (incapacitating blow) king hit (Australian)See also
* come a cropperEtymology 2
Uncertain.Alternative forms
* pearlerNoun
(en noun)citation
And you come along with that purler .
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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.