Housebreaker vs Null - What's the difference?
housebreaker | null |
A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
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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 housebreaker and null
is that housebreaker is a criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.housebreaker
English
Alternative forms
* house-breaker, house breakerNoun
(en noun)- [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker .
‘Infuriated’ vicar's wife routs interloper," Montreal Gazette (Canada), 19 Nov., p. 9 (retrieved 21 Sep 2010):
- The vicar seized a sword and routed the housebreaker , but it was the vicar's wife in an nightgown and coat who caught up with the fleeing intruder, slapped his face and held him by the neck.
Serial housebreaker nabbed," AsiaOne (Singapore), 20 May (retrieved 21 Sep 2010):
- A serial housebreaker who is believed to have stolen from several homes in Ang Mo Kio last month was nabbed on Tuesday.
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.