Oyster vs Null - What's the difference?
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Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
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* 1731 , '', 1841, ''The Works of Jonathan Swift , Volume 2,
The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
(colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
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 oyster and null
is that oyster is any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective oyster
is of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.As a verb oyster
is to fish for oysters.oyster
English
Alternative forms
* oystre (obsolete) * erster (New York City and New Orleans)Noun
(en noun)page 344,
- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster .
Derived terms
* Belon oyster * eastern oyster * Olympic oyster * oyster bed * oyster crab * oyster cracker * oyster farm * oyster mushroom * oyster pink * oyster plant * oyster sauce * oyster shell scale * oyster white * oystercatcher * oysterman * oysters rockefeller * Pacific oyster * pearl oyster * pilgrim oyster * prairie oyster * seed oyster * Sydney rock oyster * the world is one’s oyster * thorny oyster * vegetable oysterSee also
* astragalus * bluepoint * carpetbag steak * clam * lungwort * mussel * Ostreidae * salsify * spat *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.