Canine vs Null - What's the difference?
canine | null |
Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
* 1913 , (Sax Rohmer), The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu , ch. 8,
* 2005 , , page 17
Dog-like.
* 1891 , (Arthur Quiller-Couch), "The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands," Noughts & Crosses ,
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
* 1872 , (Charles Darwin), Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals , ch. 10,
Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
* 2010 , M. S. Mititch, The Spychip Conspiracy , page 189
In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
* 2006 , Amy Sutherland, Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Animal Trainers
(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
* 2005 , Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em , page 270
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 canine and null
is that canine is any member of caninae, the only living subfamily of canidae while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective canine
is of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.canine
English
Adjective
(-)- We carried the dog round to the yard, and I examined his head. . . . I accepted the care of the canine patient.
- A lost dog sniffed around the flower beds wishing it had some canine company
- In many respects she made me an admirable wife. Her affection for me was canine —positively.
- Then his upper lip may be seen to be raised, especially at the corners, so that his huge canine teeth are exhibited.
Synonyms
* (of dogs) * (dog-like)Noun
(en noun) (canine tooth)- The canine ran across the room to the open window, put his front paws on the sill and pointed his nose at the sidewalk below.
- He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump.
- You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine ") in your pocket.
Synonyms
* (dog or wolf) * (pointy tooth)See also
* lupine * vulpine * Canini (tribe within subfamily Caninae)References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
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.