Butterfly vs Null - What's the difference?
butterfly | null |
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera , distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
The butterfly stroke.
A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.
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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 butterfly and null
is that butterfly is a flying insect of the order lepidoptera , distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb butterfly
is to cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.butterfly
English
(Butterfly) (wikipedia butterfly)Noun
(butterflies)- The day came indeed when her breathless auditors learnt from her in bewilderment that what ailed him was that he was, alas, simply not serious. Maisie wept on Mrs. Wix's bosom after hearing that Sir Claude was a butterfly [...].
- butterfly tape
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* butterflies in one's stomach * butterfly ballot * butterfly banners * butterfly bat * butterfly bomb * butterfly bush (see buddleia or buddleja) * butterfly chair * butterfly clam * butterfly collector (see lepidopterist or lepidopterology) * butterfly cod * butterfly crab * butterfly dam * butterfly damper * butterfly effect * butterfly fish * butterfly flower (see schizanthus) * butterfly hinge * butterfly knife * butterfly knot * butterfly lily * butterfly mussel * butterfly net * butterfly nut (wing nut) * butterfly orchid * butterfly pea * butterfly plant * butterfly ray * butterfly shell * butterfly stroke (swimming) * butterfly table * butterfly tulip * butterfly valve * butterfly weed * butterfly window * float like a butterfly * peacock butterfly * social butterflyVerb
(en-verb)- butterflied shrimp
- Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
See also
* caterpillar * flutterby * moth * *Anagrams
* (l)References
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.
