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Clowder vs Null - What's the difference?

clowder | null |

As nouns the difference between clowder and null

is that clowder is a group of cats while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

clowder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of cats.
  • * 2007 , Kathryn Soper, Cat Wrangling Made Easy
  • Real cat fights are rare in established clowders . So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats.
  • * 2010 , The Big Bang Theory , episode “ The Zazzy Substitution
  • Leonard : You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
    Sheldon : Clowder .
    Leonard : What?
    Sheldon : A group of cats is a clowder . Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.
  • * 2011 , M.D. Pueppke, Fuzzy the Cat, The One and Only , “ Getting on terms with the terms
  • How ?bout organizing a party of clowder' chowder. You know, big servings of chowder for the cat ' clowder .

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Hyponyms

    * kindle (group of kittens)

    See also

    *

    References

    * Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. 12 Oct. 2006. English collective nouns

    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 ----