Lurcher vs Null - What's the difference?
lurcher | null |
(obsolete) One who lurks or lies in wait; one who watches in order to rob or betray; a poacher.
A type of crossbreed dog ? a cross between a sighthound and any other breed or the offspring of such crosses.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 5, author=Penelope Green, title=New Book Offers Knitted Projects for Pets, work=New York Times
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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 lurcher and null
is that lurcher is (obsolete) one who lurks or lies in wait; one who watches in order to rob or betray; a poacher or lurcher can be (obsolete) a glutton; a gormandizer while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lurcher
English
(wikipedia lurcher)Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)citation
Etymology 2
(etyl) (lena) (lurco), (lurcho), a glutton. See (lurch).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.