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Buzzard vs Null - What's the difference?

buzzard | null |

As nouns the difference between buzzard and null

is that buzzard is any of several old world birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

buzzard

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several Old World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.
  • In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus''), and the turkey vulture (''Cathartes aura ).
  • A curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
  • (archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
  • * Goldsmith
  • It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard .

    Derived terms

    * augur buzzard, Buteo augur * common buzzard, Buteo buteo * eastern buzzard, Buteo japonicus * forest buzzard, Buteo trizonatus * grasshopper buzzard, Butastur rufipennis * grey-faced buzzard, Butastur indicus * jackal buzzard, Buteo rufofuscus * lizard buzzard, Kaupifalco monogrammicus * long-legged buzzard, Buteo rufinus * Madagascar buzzard, Buteo brachypterus * mountain buzzard, Buteo oreophilus * red-necked buzzard, Buteo auguralis * rufous-winged buzzard, Butastur liventer * upland buzzard, Buteo hemilasius * white-eyed buzzard, Butastur teesa

    Synonyms

    * buteo * broadwing * turkey vulture * vulture (-)

    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 ----