Rat vs Null - What's the difference?
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(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus .
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, title= (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
(informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(informal) An informant or snitch.
(slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
Scab.
Vagina.
A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
To kill rats.
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 an adjective rat
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rat
English
(wikipedia rat)Noun
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- He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
Synonyms
* (person known for betrayal) traitor (see for more synonyms ) * (informer) stool pigeonDerived terms
* black rat * brown rat * desert rat * give a rat's ass * * like rats from a sinking ship * love rat * mall rat * ratface * ratfink * ratter * rat race * rattail * ratty * rat's nest * rat-trap * ring rat * smell a rat * gym ratSee also
* mouse * rodentVerb
(ratt)- He ratted on his coworker.
- He is going to rat us out!
Synonyms
* (to betray someone to an authority) tell on, to finger or "put the finger on", bewrayAnagrams
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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.