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Copycat vs Null - What's the difference?

copycat | null |

As nouns the difference between copycat and null

is that copycat is (informal) one who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective copycat

is ; unoriginal.

As a verb copycat

is to act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.

copycat

English

Alternative forms

* copy cat * copy-cat

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.
  • A criminal who imitates the crimes of another.
  • a copycat strangler

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • ; unoriginal.
  • *
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  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 3, author=Janet Maslin, title=His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=In a genre that is rife with copycatting , Ms. Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground. }}

    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 ----