Rib vs Null - What's the difference?
rib | null |
Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum
A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something
A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones
(label) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull
Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength
(label) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
(label) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth
(label) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf
A teasing joke
A single strand of hair.
A stalk of celery.
To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs
To tease or make fun of someone
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
* Shakespeare
(label) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
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 rib and null
is that rib is (acronym) rigid inflatable boat — a lightweight inflatable boat with a rigid hull while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rib
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Derived terms
{{der3, chuck rib , middle rib , ribcage , rib eye , ribgrass , rib-tickler , ribwort , spare rib , ribbed vault , grey rib}}Anagrams
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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.