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Sulky vs Null - What's the difference?

sulky | null |

As nouns the difference between sulky and null

is that sulky is a low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective sulky

is silent and withdrawn after being upset.

sulky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • silent and withdrawn after being upset
  • the sulky child
  • * 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
  • The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky , and would only say, ā€œI’m older than you, and must know better.ā€ And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

    Synonyms

    * sullen, morose

    Noun

    (sulkies)
  • A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
  • Any carriage seating only the driver.
  • null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----