Heifer vs Null - What's the difference?
heifer | null |
(label) A young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
* 1611 , KJV, Numbers 19:1-2
(label) A wife.
*1616 , Ben Jonson, Epicœne'', Ch. ii., in ''Works , Vol. I, p. 549:
A girl.
* 1853 , T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws , Vol. II., p. 282:
A cow: a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman.
* 2001 , Glenda Howard, Cita's World
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 heifer and null
is that heifer is (label) a young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.heifer
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, heiferbud, heifer-bud , heifer calf , heifer dust , heiferhood , heifer paddock, heifer-paddock , heifer yearling , plow with one's heifer, plough with one's heifer}}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.