Dero vs Null - What's the difference?
dero | null |
(Australia) A homeless person, a tramp; a social derelict.
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Underground subhumans who kidnap humans for torture and food.
* 1948' ('''2007 ), Richard S. Shaver, ''
* 1987 , Martin Gardner, Riddles of the sphinx, and other mathematical puzzle tales'', Mathematical Association of America, ISBN 0883856336, page 62 (originally published ''Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine , Volume 10)
* 2000 , Harold A. Skaarup, Visitors: Questions & Answers , ISBN 0595133282,
* 2011 , David Halperin, Journal of a UFO Investigator , ISBN 0670022454
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 dero and null
is that dero is (australia) a homeless person, a tramp; a social derelict or dero can be underground subhumans who kidnap humans for torture and food while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dero
English
Etymology 1
From (derelict).Alternative forms
* derroNoun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
From (detrimental) (robots). Invented by and first published in "I Remember Lemuria!" in Amazing Stories , March 1945.Alternative forms
* derroNoun
(en noun)I Remember Lemuria and The return of Sathanas] , [http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/irl/irl10.htm page 84
- No laughing matter now, these ugly dwarfs! They were dero'', children of ''dero , enslaved in some manner by the derodite master who sought the death of all Mu!
- They were supposed to be wicked creatures who lived underground, as described in Richard Shaver's notorious SF tales of the late forties. I had always assumed that Shaver's stories were pure fiction, yet here I was, talking to a dero!
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- Teros. A term describing various human groups who inhabit the cavern systems and who have reestablished antediluvian cities beneath the North American continent. Many of these may be descended from older civilizations such as ancient native Americans who went underground hundreds and or(sic) thousands of years ago. They also refer to the
' Dero' which apparently consist of Draconian elements (Evadamic).
- “The dero caves are not a joke,” Rochelle said. “Richard Shaver's welding gun—or whatever was talking to him—was telling him the truth. Mostly the truth anyway.”
Anagrams
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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.