Tushed vs Null - What's the difference?
tushed | null |
(tush)
A tusk.
* 1818 , John Keats, "To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.":
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A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
(US, colloquial) The buttocks
(An exclamation of contempt or rebuke).
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
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 a verb tushed
is (tush).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tushed
English
Verb
(head)tush
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tuscNoun
(tushes)- Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes , and no mermaid's toes [...].
- he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.
Etymology 2
Short for toches, from (etyl) . Since 1914.Noun
(es)Derived terms
* tushie * tushyEtymology 3
A "natural utterance" (OED), attested since the 15th centuryInterjection
(en interjection)- He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush ! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful? But I'm afraid Mrs. Bank Manager is a puss—a distinct puss. It's when they get on the soul-mate stunt that the furniture begins to fly."
Noun
(-)Etymology 4
Of unknown origin, attested since 1841.Verb
(es)Etymology 5
From British slang tusheroonNoun
(es)Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----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.