Robin vs Null - What's the difference?
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Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
# A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
# An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
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 robin and null
is that robin is (soccer) someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the , as a fan, player, coach, etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a proper noun robin
is .robin
English
(wikipedia robin)Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Usage notes
The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.Synonyms
* (all senses) redbreast, robin redbreast * (the European robin)Derived terms
* robin redbreast * round-robinExternal links
* (Erithacus rubecula) * (Turdus migratorius) * (Erithacus rubecula) * (Turdus migratorius) ----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.