Swill vs Null - What's the difference?
swill | null |
a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
any disgusting or distasteful liquid
anything disgusting or worthless
a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
Inexpensive beer
to eat or drink greedily or to excess
* Smollett
*1913 ,
*:If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.
to wash something by flooding with water
* Shakespeare
to inebriate; to fill with drink.
* Milton
to feed pigs swill
* 1921 , (Nephi Anderson), Dorian Chapter 8
*:"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"
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 swill and null
is that swill is a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb swill
is to eat or drink greedily or to excess.swill
English
Noun
(en noun)- I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill .
- This new TV show is a worthless load of swill .
- He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Well-dressed people, of both sexes, devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
- As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
- I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.
Anagrams
*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.