Rares vs Null - What's the difference?
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(rare)
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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, title= (label) Thin; of low density.
(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
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 rares
is (rare).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rares
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
(er)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.
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.