Twunt vs Null - What's the difference?
twunt | null |
(UK, slang) A fool; an extremely objectionable person.
*2011 , (Grace Dent), The Guardian , 8 Jul 2011:
*:It is completely normal to harbour desires to batter these smug twunts about the head with a hot MacBook Air.
* "I note that in a recent New Scientist some twunt was advocating the use of C02 pressure washers and acidic/caustic cleaning foams instead of the usual disinfectant approach." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.dur.general/msg/f9c25d1a4ab6a623]
* "Is that the twunt who looks like Bill Bailey's younger brother?" — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/uk.media.tv.misc/msg/b10e5ae4c747d4bb]
* "Let the pub-dodging twunt embarrass himself with his primitive, witless and repetitive insults. " — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/ddaef5bb1489b3cf]
* "Sorry for being kind of a twunt about other matters, but it's because of posts like this that I don't want to write you off or lose you as a friend." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime.misc/msg/27798193d1450dc0]
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 twunt and null
is that twunt is (uk|slang) a fool; an extremely objectionable person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.twunt
English
Noun
(en noun)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.