Ruddy vs Null - What's the difference?
ruddy | null |
Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
(British, slang) A mild intensifier.
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(informal) ruddy duck
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=Close to Nature, and the Airport, work=New York Times
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To make reddish in colour.
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 ruddy and null
is that ruddy is (informal) ruddy duck while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective ruddy
is reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.As a verb ruddy
is to make reddish in colour.ruddy
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (reddish in color) rosy * (intensifier) bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming * See alsoSee also
*Noun
(ruddies)citation
Verb
- The sunset ruddied our faces.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
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.