Cricket vs Null - What's the difference?
cricket | null |
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family , that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A wooden footstool.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.
(US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
(chiefly, British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
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 cricket and null
is that cricket is an insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family family: Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As verbs the difference between cricket and null
is that cricket is to play the game of cricket while null is to nullify; to annul.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.cricket
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) criquet, from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* balm cricket * chirpy as a cricket * cricket bird * cricket frog * house cricket * mole cricket * Mormon cricket * true cricketEtymology 2
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch 'to ricochet' , i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7919429.stm]Noun
(-)- ''That player's foul wasn't cricket !
Usage notes
The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is always used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage. * (An act that is unfair or unsportsmanlike) not cricketSee also
*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.
