Quiff vs Null - What's the difference?
quiff | null |
(regional, slang) A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
*1933 , (John Masefield), The Bird of Dawning :
*:It was young Mr. Abbott worked that quiff on you, sir.
A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.
*2012 , Tom Lamont, The Observer , 2 Sep 2012:
*:His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff , he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.
To arrange (the hair) in such a manner.
(slang) A young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute.
*1949 , (w, John O'Hara), Rage to Live :
*:How would I get an African toothache when the closest I been to a quiff in over a month is sitting next to one?
(slang) The vulva or vagina.
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 120:
*:Jane was drying herself in the bedroom, holding the bath towel behind her shoulders, her small breasts and childlike nipples flushed from the power jet, her quiff a barely visible thread.
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 quiff and null
is that quiff is a puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke or quiff can be (regional|slang) a trick or ploy; a stratagem or quiff can be a hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s or quiff can be (slang) a young girl, especially as promiscuous; a prostitute while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb quiff
is to arrange (the hair) in such a manner.quiff
English
Etymology 1
Variant form of (whiff).Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of (coif).Noun
(en noun)Verb
Etymology 4
Probably variant of .Noun
(en noun)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.