Cuckoo vs Null - What's the difference?
cuckoo | null |
Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the , Cuculus canorus , that has a characteristic two-note call.
The sound of that particular bird.
The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest ).
Someone who is crazy.
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 cuckoo and null
is that cuckoo is any of various birds, of the family cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the , cuculus canorus , that has a characteristic two-note call while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective cuckoo
is crazy; not sane.As a verb cuckoo
is to make the call of a cuckoo.cuckoo
English
(wikipedia cuckoo)Noun
(en noun)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.