Catwise vs Null - What's the difference?
catwise | null |
In the manner of a cat.
* 1955 , Patrick White, The tree of man
* 1997 , Michael Cannon Rea, Material constitution: a reader
* 2005 , Charles Mayer, Jungle Beasts I Have Captured
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 an adverb catwise
is in the manner of a cat.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.catwise
English
Adverb
(-)- Turning with an effort from the sad cat, Amy Parker looked through the fog of the window and saw her neighbour elongate herself catwise round the corner of a shed...
- Every cat is necessarily such that its parts are arranged catwise .
- In a happier mood, had he not been driven by hunger, he might have played with it, catwise , when it was dead, tossing it up and pretending that it was alive...
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.