Swallow vs Null - What's the difference?
swallow | null |
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:
* 2011 , Jonathan Jones, The Guardian , 21 Apr 2011:
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
* John Locke
* 2010 , "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist , 28 Oct 2010:
To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
* 1979 , VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic :
To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 2011 , Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian , 22 Apr 2011:
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up .
* Alexander Pope
To retract; to recant.
* Shakespeare
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
(archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
(nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
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 swallow and null
is that swallow is (archaic) a deep chasm or abyss in the earth or swallow can be a small, migratory bird of the hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb swallow
is to cause (food, drink etc) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.swallow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) swolowen, swolwen, . See also (l). The noun is from late (etyl) , from the verb.Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
- Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed : they remain trapped in the physical world.
- The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
- His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
- My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow .
- She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
- Though that story be not so readily swallowed .
- Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
- Homer excels in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
- to swallow one's opinions
- swallowed his vows whole
- to swallow an affront or insult
Derived terms
* bitter pill to swallow * swallowable * swallow one's pride * swallow upSee also
* dysphagiaNoun
(en noun)- He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
Etymology 2
(wikipedia swallow) (etyl) swealwe, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (small bird of Hirundunudae) martlet * barn swallow (official British name)Derived terms
* one swallow does not make a summer * swallow-tailedAnagrams
* wallowsnull
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.