Ringer vs Null - What's the difference?
ringer | null |
Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
* 1863 , ,
(mining) A crowbar.
(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
(uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
(horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
(sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer .
(UK, dialect) A top performer.
(Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
(Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
* 1964 , Alec Bolton, Walkabout?s Australia , ,
* 1987 , Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk. The Australian Adventure: The Explorer?s Guide to the Island Continent ,
* 2005 , Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America ,
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 ringer and null
is that ringer is (label) a fan of the novel (the lord of the rings) by and/or the film trilogy based on it while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ringer
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- Pull, if ye never pull?d before;
- Good ringers , pull your best," quoth he.
- (Simmonds)
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Probably from ring the changes.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* dead ringerEtymology 4
.Noun
(en noun)page 107,
- The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
page 175,
- This vast holding is run by six ringers' and six boys. A '''ringer''' is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ' ringer .
page 156,
- Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer?s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.
Anagrams
* ----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.