Creature vs Null - What's the difference?
creature | null |
A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
* 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 A living being; an animal or human.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 240:
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 creature and null
is that creature is (archaic|chiefly|literary|and|philosophy) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.creature
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Thoughts, my mindes creatures , often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
- the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature .
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Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
- they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.
Usage notes
* For an explanation of the specialised use of the alternative spelling ''creäture'', see . * Adjectives often applied to "creature": evil, living, little, mythical, poor, strange, beautiful, wild, rational, marine, social, legendary, good, mysterious, curious, magical, dangerous, mythological, bizarre, monstrous, unhappy, huge, lowly, ugly, happy, unique, odd, weird, demonic, divine, imaginary, hideous, fabulous, nocturnal, angelic, political.Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* creature comfortReferences
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.