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Katy vs Null - What's the difference?

katy | null |

As nouns the difference between katy and null

is that katy is an apple cultivar from sweden while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a proper noun katy

is a female given name, diminutive of katherine and of its variant forms.

katy

English

Alternative forms

* (as a female name) Catie, Caty, Katie

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A female given name, diminutive of Katherine and of its variant forms.
  • The Missouri, Kansas and Texas (M.K.T) Railroad.
  • She caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride. Song title.
  • A village in Poland
  • A city in Texas
  • An unincorporated community in West Virginia
  • Quotations

    * 1876 Elizabeth Prentiss: Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's Hero . Ward, Lock&Tyler 1876. page 87: *: The very first thing, however, Ernest annoyed me by calling me Katherine, though he knows I hate that name, and want to be called Katy as if I were a lovable person, as I certainly am (sometimes).

    Noun

    (Katies)
  • An apple cultivar from Sweden
  • null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----