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Wastoid vs Null - What's the difference?

wastoid | null |

As nouns the difference between wastoid and null

is that wastoid is (slang|derogatory) a person with a drug or alcohol addiction while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

wastoid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, derogatory) A person with a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • * 1985 , , 00:54:35:
  • *:Andrew Clark: Yo, wastoid . You're not gonna blaze up in here.
  • (slang, derogatory) A person regarded with contempt; a loser.
  • * 1999 , Michael Hornburg, Downers Grove , Grove Press (2001), ISBN 9780802199577, page 133:
  • "They look like the stupid kind of wastoids who get gobbled up in the first ten minutes of a horror movie," I said.
  • (slang, derogatory) An absent-minded or vacuous person.
  • * 2004 , , The V Club , Simon & Schuster (2004), ISBN 0689867646, page 16:
  • Oh God. What if he was talking to me and I didn't say anything and was just sitting here staring into space like a complete wastoid'''?'' Eva blinked. ''Did I just use the word'' ' wastoid ?

    Synonyms

    *(drug addict) see also *(absent-minded or vacuous person) airhead, space cadet

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----