Jackal vs Null - What's the difference?
jackal | null |
Any of several wild canine species, native to the tropical Old World, smaller than a wolf.
A person who performs menial/routine tasks, dogsbody
(pejorative) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
(slang, rare) A jack (the playing card.)
To perform menial or routine tasks
* 1800 , Pamphlets on British Taxation [http://books.google.com/books?id=XB8JAQAAIAAJ]:
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 jackal and null
is that jackal is any of several wild canine species, native to the tropical old world, smaller than a wolf while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb jackal
is to perform menial or routine tasks.jackal
English
Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* black-backed jackal ** Cape jackal ** East African Jackal * golden jackal * side-striped jackalHypernyms
* canidSee also
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
- They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.
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.