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zebra | null |

As a verb zebra

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

zebra

English

(wikipedia zebra)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of three species of genus Equus'': ''E. grevyi]]'', '''', or ''[[Equus zebra, E. zebra , all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
  • (sports, slang) A referee.
  • (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.")
  • (vulgar, pejorative, slang) A bi-racial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
  • Hyponyms

    * (animal of genus Equus) , quagga, plains zebra, mountain zebra

    Synonyms

    * (unusual diagnosis) fascinoma

    Derived terms

    * Burchell's zebra * Grevy's zebra * mountain zebra * plains zebra * zebra butterfly * zebra caterpillar * zebra crossing * zebra finch * zebrafish * zebra mongoose * zebra mussel * zebra opossum * zebra parakeet, zebra parrakeet * zebra poison * zebra shark * zebra spider * zebra swallowtail * zebra wolf

    See also

    * quagga * Equus burchelli'', ''Equus grevyi'', ''Equus quagga'', ''Equus zebra

    Anagrams

    *

    References

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----