Vanned vs Null - What's the difference?
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(van)
A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
(British) A railway carriage.
(UK, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
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* 1667 , (John Milton),
* 1698 , Ned Ward, The London Spy
* 1965 , translated by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, '', book 4 ''Vir??a Parva , section 33, page 84:
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To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
* 1966 , United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce:
* 1999 , Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads , p. 53:
(mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
A wing with which the air is beaten.
* Milton
* Dryden
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 vanned
is (van).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vanned
English
Verb
(head)van
English
Etymology 1
Short for caravan.Noun
(en noun)Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590:
- Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
- Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster
- Bh??ma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Kar?a, clad in armour, stand in the van . And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
Derived terms
* detector van * divvy van * driving van trailer * goods van * panel van * * white van manSee also
* lorry * transit (UK) * truckVerb
(vann)- I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
- [They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.
Etymology 2
(etyl)Verb
(vann)- (Raymond)
Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena) : compare (etyl) van and English (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- So Satan fell; and strait a fiery globe / Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy vans receiv'd him soft
- He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans' in vain; / His ' vans no longer could his flight sustain.
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.