Polecat vs Null - What's the difference?
polecat | null |
A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela'', notably the European polecat, ''Mustela putorius .
(US, dialect) A skunk.
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 polecat and null
is that polecat is a weasel-like animal of the genus mustela'', notably the european polecat, ''mustela putorius while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.polecat
English
(wikipedia polecat)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61 *: By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergoda itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.Derived terms
* marbled polecat * steppe polecat * striped polecat * European polecatSynonyms
* fitch * foumart * skunkAnagrams
* Appalachian Englishnull
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.