Walker vs Null - What's the difference?
walker | null |
: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1 Chapter 8
* 2005 , Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)
A walking frame.
(often, in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.
A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
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* 1981 , Spare rib: Volumes 108-119
* 1984 , Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton
* 2007 , (The Walker) (film about a male escort)
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 proper noun walker
is from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.As an interjection walker
is (uk|archaic|slang) expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.walker
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker , and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey."
- We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.
- Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.
- In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker " — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening
Synonyms
* (walking frame) walking frame, Zimmer frameDerived terms
* baby walker * highwire walker * * * tightrope walkerAnagrams
* English agent nounsSee also
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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.