Ferret vs Null - What's the difference?
ferret | null |
An often domesticated mammal rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.
The (black-footed ferret), .
A diligent searcher.
To hunt game with ferrets.
To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out .
* Shakespeare
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(dated) A tape of silk, cotton, or ribbon, used to tie documents, clothing, etc. or along the edge of fabric.
* Charles Dickens, Bleak House
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 ferret and null
is that ferret is an often domesticated mammal rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals or ferret can be (dated) a tape of silk, cotton, or ribbon, used to tie documents, clothing, etc or along the edge of fabric while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb ferret
is to hunt game with ferrets.ferret
English
(wikipedia ferret)Etymology 1
(etyl) furet, ferret, from (etyl) firet, furet, diminutive of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (domesticated polecat) Mustela putorius furoVerb
(en verb)- Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.
- She ferreted in her bag; then held it up mouth downwards; then fumbled in her lap, all so vigorously that Charles Steele in the Panama hat suspended his paint-brush.
See also
*Etymology 2
(etyl) fiorettoNoun
- red tape and green ferret
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.