Swagman vs Null - What's the difference?
swagman | null |
(Australia, historical) An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging.
* 1902 , , 2007, Echo Library,
* 2007 , Melissa Harper, The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia ,
* 2009 , Bronwyn Sell, John Caffrey, c.1850-87'', ''Law Breakers and Mischief Makers: 50 Notorious New Zealanders , 2010, ReadHowYouWant,
(US, slang) A fence, a middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
* 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, They Can Get It for You BETTER Than Wholesale'', '' ,
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 swagman and null
is that swagman is (australia|historical) an itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.swagman
English
(wikipedia swagman)Alternative forms
* swaggie (diminutive)Noun
page 89,
- She was not afraid of horsemen; but swagmen , going to, or worse, coming from the dismal, drunken little township, a day?s journey beyond, terrified her. One had called at the house today, and asked for tucker.
page 100,
- In his prose works Landlopers'' and ''Knocking Round , Brereton penned affectionate portraits of shearers, swagmen and farmers? wives, based on people he had met on his walks.
page 72,
- The policeman thought it best to surprise the man, since he might be armed, so he disguised himself as a swagman and pounced as the man returned from his bridge-painting job.
page 34,
- According to Tommy, the mob uses swagmen like himself as down-the-line distributors for these large jobs.
Synonyms
* (one who travels on foot looking for work) hobo, sundowner, traveller (dated Australian usage), tussocker (New Zealand) * (fence) fencenull
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.