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Birdling vs Null - What's the difference?

birdling | null |

As nouns the difference between birdling and null

is that birdling is a little bird; birdie; a nestling while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

birdling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A little bird; birdie; a nestling.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1872, author=John Hay, et al., title=Not Pretty, But Precious, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Clasped, love, close to thy heart, thy birdling Foldeth her wings in peace-- Trusts, love! feeling nor cold nor shadow, Finding at last her ease, From fear a safe release, Heart's love, with thee." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=John L. Stoddard, title=Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Nay, fear not, birdling ! let me gently Uplift and hold thee in my hand; Thou gazest on me so intently, Thou must my motive understand. }}

    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 ----