Copycat vs Null - What's the difference?
copycat | null |
(informal) One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.
A criminal who imitates the crimes of another.
To act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 3, author=Janet Maslin, title=His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer, work=New York Times
, passage=In a genre that is rife with copycatting , Ms. Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground. }}
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 copycat and null
is that copycat is (informal) one who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective copycat
is ; unoriginal.As a verb copycat
is to act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.copycat
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Alternative forms
* copy cat * copy-catNoun
(en noun)- a copycat strangler
Verb
(en-verb)citation
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.