Smoothie vs Null - What's the difference?
smoothie | null |
A smooth-talking person.
* 2003 , Michael Lydon, Flashbacks: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution, 1964-1974 (page 7)
A drink made from whole fruit, thus thicker than fruit juice.
A member of the mod subculture who is relatively non-violent and wears expensive clothing.
* 1987 , John Irwin (quoting Piri Thomas), The Felon
* 1999 , Nick Johnstone, Abel Ferrara: The King of New York (page viii)
* 2011 , Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged
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 smoothie and null
is that smoothie is a smooth-talking person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.smoothie
English
(wikipedia smoothie)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- True to their reputations, Paul was a smoothie who put a public relations gloss on everything he said, and John was abrasive and sarcastic, speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may.
- The decision to cool myself made the next two years the hardest I had done because it meant being a smoothie and staying out of trouble, which in prison is difficult,
- Film Comment's David Chute described him as: "small, stringy and intense, but he's better dressed and groomed (than Ferrara), less of a punk and more of a smoothie ."
See also
* thickienull
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.