Purred vs Null - What's the difference?
purred | null |
(purr)
Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented.
To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner.
* 2008 , C. E. Osborne, Black Gold Death in the Sun (page 12)
To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure.
(of an engine) To make a low and consistent rumbling sound.
* 2001 , E. C. Craver, Last Reunion (page 159)
The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.
* 1918 , Sarath Kumar Ghosh, The wonders of the jungle - Volume 2 (page 113)
A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person.
* 2006 , Brenda Williamson, Wolverton Blood (page 53)
The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed
* 1997 , Susan Wood, A Fly in Amber (page 191)
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 a verb purred
is (purr).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.purred
English
Verb
(head)purr
English
Verb
(en verb)- "This is Cindy," she purred again, flashing a smile of perfect white teeth surrounded by full red lips.
- Beverly passed the city limits sign with the Porsche's motor purring contentedly after its two hundred and fifty-mile romp.
Derived terms
* purrer * purr like a kittenNoun
(en noun)- Instead, the tiger looked around, and gave a purr , and then a growl. What did that mean? The man could not tell. Then the tiger just flung upon the man some of the sand from the side of the hollow.
- The trill of her purr echoed inside his mouth when he kissed her again. Clutching at his shirt, her fingers traveled the muscles in his back.
- I sat still in the car and listened to the soft purr of the engine and my beating heart. Then slowly, and as silently as possible, I drove the car back to camp.
Derived terms
* purrlikeSee also
* meow English onomatopoeiasnull
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.