Grass vs Null - What's the difference?
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(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
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, title= (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
(uncountable) A lawn.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
(countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
(uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
The season of fresh grass; spring.
* Latham
(obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
* Bible Is. xl. 7
To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
* 1893 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:
(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
To cover with grass or with turf.
To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
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 a proper noun grass
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.grass
English
(wikipedia grass)Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
- two years old next grass
- Surely the people is grass .
Synonyms
* ''Gramineae (alternative name)Derived terms
* grasshopper * grass widow * grassy * lemongrass * ryegrass * supergrassSee also
* (Poaceae) *Verb
(es)- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
- to grass a fish
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.