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Crossbreed vs Null - What's the difference?

crossbreed | null |

As nouns the difference between crossbreed and null

is that crossbreed is an organism produced by mating]] of individuals of different [[variety|varieties or breeds while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb crossbreed

is to produce (an organism) by the mating]] of individuals of different breeds, [[variety|varieties, or species; hybridize.

crossbreed

English

Alternative forms

* cross-breed

Verb

  • To produce (an organism) by the mating]] of individuals of different breeds, [[variety, varieties, or species; hybridize.
  • *{{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 15, author=James Krohe Jr., title=Where Has All the Flora Gone?, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Recalling the crossbreeding of the lakeside daisy, he insists, "If we hadn't polluted that population with Ohio plants it might have vanished. }}
  • To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
  • To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An organism produced by mating]] of individuals of different [[variety, varieties or breeds.
  • 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 ----