Crocodile vs Null - What's the difference?
crocodile | null |
Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.
* 2005 , Mwelwa Musambachime, Basic Facts on Zambia ,
* 2008', Walkter B. Wood, ''Chapter 16: Forensic Identification in Fatal '''Crocodile Attacks'', Marc Oxenham (editor), ''Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse ,
* 2011', Sam Thaker, ''The '''Crocodile's Teeth ,
A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
* 1939 , (George Orwell), Coming Up for Air , part 2, chapter 8
(logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
* (Maria Edgeworth)
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 crocodile and null
is that crocodile is any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.crocodile
English
(wikipedia crocodile) (Crocodile dilemma)Noun
(en noun)page 97,
- Industrial and rural expansion is shrinking and destroying the Nile crocodile's' natural habitat. The Nile ' crocodiles , in particular, have been a source of highly durable leather for a variety of products which can be crafted and manufactured.
page 244,
- Two species of crocodile' inhabit Australian waterways: (a) the saltwater '''Crocodile''' — ''Crocodylus porosus'', and (b) the freshwater '''crocodile — ''Crocodylus johnstoni .
page 31,
- One contained some brightly-coloured tropical birds, one a python and the other a large and very lively crocodile .
- I told the customer that the boxes containing the crocodile and the python were not packed to my satisfaction, as there were not enough nails securing them.
- Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
- We have seen syllogisms, crocodiles , enthymemas, sorites, &c. explained and tried upon a boy of nine or ten years old in playful conversation
Synonyms
* (predatory amphibious reptile) croc (informal)Derived terms
* American crocodile * Australian freshwater crocodile * black crocodile * crocodile clip * crocodile tears * Cuban crocodile * dwarf crocodile * estuarine crocodile * freshwater crocodile * Johnston's crocodile * Morelet's crocodile * mugger crocodile * New Guinea crocodile * Nile crocodile * Orinoco crocodile * Philippine crocodile * saltwater crocodile * Siamese crocodile * slender-snouted crocodileSee also
* alligator * caiman, cayman * freshie, freshy * gator * gavial, gharial * saltie ----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.