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leopard | null |

As nouns the difference between leopard and null

is that leopard is leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, panthera pardus) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

leopard

Alternative forms

* lybard * libbard

Noun

(en noun)
  • Panthera pardus , a large wild cat with a spotted coat, indigenous to Africa and Asia.
  • * 1990 , Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species , 1992, page 284,
  • During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard' was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of '''leopards''' to recognize that, even in the absence of a '''leopard''', a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a ' leopard itself.
  • * 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel , page 201,
  • The leopard (Panthera pardus'' or ''Felis pardus cf tulliana ) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
  • * 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine , page 197,
  • Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
  • Either of two similar large cats native to Asia, also with spotted coats: Neofelis nebulosa'' (clouded leopard) or ''Uncia uncia (snow leopard).
  • * 2005 , Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations , page 81,
  • There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards'—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded ' leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.
  • Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
  • (heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.
  • Synonyms

    * (Panthera pardus) common leopard

    Derived terms

    * a leopard cannot change its spots * clouded leopard * common leopard * leopardess * leopard cat * leopard complex * leopard frog * leopard gecko * leopard moth * leopard seal * leopard shark * leopard tortoise * leopard's head * leopardsbane * Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog * snow leopard

    Hypernyms

    * panther

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    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 ----