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ladybird | null |

As nouns the difference between ladybird and null

is that ladybird is any of the coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ladybird

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
  • * 1914 , Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America , Volume 7, page 81,
  • During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird', making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ' ladybird .
  • * 1927 , Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood?s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury , Volume 1, Gutenberg eBook #19993,
  • Lady-bird', ' lady-bird , fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
  • * 1976' September 30, Denis Owen, '''''Ladybird''', '''ladybird , fly away home'', , page 686,
  • Ladybirds , unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
  • * 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology , Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition, page 2130,
  • Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds' in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ' ladybird species into North America.

    Usage notes

    The term ladybird is used both in British and US English, although the alternative ladybug is common in the US.

    Synonyms

    * (beetle) coccinellid, ladybug (North America), lady beetle (term preferred by some scientists), lady cow (obsolete), lady fly (obsolete)

    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 ----