Skank vs Null - What's the difference?
skank | null |
(pejorative, slang) A lewdly unattractive and disreputable person, often female, especially one with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
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To cheat, especially a friend.
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 skank and null
is that skank is a gift, a donation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb skank
is .skank
English
Etymology 1
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. Middle English, meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
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Jamaican originEtymology 4
Slang word used in Northern England (commonly used through the 1980s).Verb
(en verb)- ''He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked .
Derived terms
* skanker * skanky Jamaican English ----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.