Ruby vs Null - What's the difference?
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A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
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(obsolete) A red spinel.
A deep red colour.
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(typesetting, British) Type having a height of 5.5 points.
A (ruby hummer), a South American hummingbird, .
A red bird-of-paradise, .
(printing) agate (a size of type)
(poetic) To make red; to redden.
A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.
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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 ruby and null
is that ruby is (cockney rhyming slang) a curry, short for ruby murray while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a proper noun ruby
is .ruby
English
(wikipedia ruby)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rubi, from (etyl) .Noun
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- the natural ruby of your cheeks
Synonyms
* (typesetting) agate (US)See also
* * carbuncle * corundum * spinel * (Ruby)Derived terms
* balas ruby * Colorado ruby * rubasse * rubicund * rubious * rubric * ruby port * ruby spinel * ruby wedding * ruby-throated hummingbird * star rubyVerb
- (Alexander Pope)
Etymology 2
From the British 5.5-point font Ruby , used for annotations in printed documents.Noun
(rubies)Synonyms
* rubiSee also
* furigana * yomigana * pinyin * Zhuyin * (Ruby characters)Anagrams
* burynull
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.