Swan vs Null - What's the difference?
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Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus , most of which have white plumage.
(figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
(British) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
* 2010 , Lee Rourke, The Canal , Melville House Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781935554905,
* 2013 , Tilly Bagshawe, One Summer’s Afternoon , HarperCollins (2013), ISBN 9780007472550,
(US, slang) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
* 1907 December, J. D. Archer, Foiling an eavesdropper'', in ''Telephony , volume 14, page 345:
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, page 214:
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 swan and null
is that swan is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach, etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a proper noun swan
is .swan
English
(wikipedia swan)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* swanling * swan species: black swan, black-necked swan, mute swan, trumpeter swan, tundra swan, whooper swan * swan boat * swan dive * swanherd * swannery * swansdown * swanskin * swan songSee also
* cob (adult male) * cygnet (epicene, young) * lamentation * pen (adult female)Verb
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- He swans' around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he ' swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.
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- One of the few strokes of good luck Emma had had in recent days was the news that Tatiana Flint-Hamilton, her only real rival for top billing as 'most photographable girl' at today's event had decided to swan off to Sardinia instead, leaving the limelight entirely to Emma.
Usage notes
* In the sense "to travel", usually used as part of the phrase "to swan about" or "to swan around".Etymology 2
Probably from dialectal , contraction of "I shall warrant"; later seen as a minced form of (term).Verb
(swann)- "Well, I swan , man, I had a better opinion of you than that."
- ‘She slammed the door so hard I figured a window'd break .’ ‘I swan ,’ I said.
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----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.